Underlining a String or Bolding it

How can I underline the title or put it in bold?

I have the following code:

for j = 1:totalcount

      title = sprintf('List of Accelerometers Matching the Selected Criteria      (%d of %d)',count,totalcount);

      msgbox([title;line;name(:,j)]);
      count = count+1;
  end

I want to underline the string contained in the variable "title".

[John]

ignore the variable "line" in msgbox please it should really be the following:

msgbox([title,name(:,j)])

[Jan]

@John: You can edit your question. That's nicer than appending a comment.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Bold is possible as TeX command:

Opt.Interpreter = 'tex';
Opt.WindowStyle = 'normal';
msgbox('This text contains a \bfbold\rm word.', 'Title', 'none', Opt);

You can use \it for italics and \color also. But as far as I know, underlining is not possible without using java.

[John]

I have tried the following with no luck:

Opt.Interpreter = 'tex';

Opt.WindowStyle = 'normal';

for j = 1:totalcount

title = sprintf('\brList of Accelerometers Matching the Selected Criteria (%d of %d)\rm',...

count,totalcount);

msgbox([title;name(:,j)],'List of Accels','none',Opt);

count = count+1;

end

What would you advise?

[Walter Roberson]

Use \\ instead of \ inside of sprintf()

[Jan]

It is unlikely that "[title;name(:,j)]" will work: therefore "title" and "name(:,j)" name must have the same number of characters. I guess you want a comma instead of a semicolon. A cell string maybe better.

You could find the problem by investigating the intermediate values: What does "sprintf('\brList of Accelerometers Matching the Selected Criteria (%d of %d)\rm', count, totalcount);" reply? SPRINTF interpretes the \ as escape character. So either use the already suggested \\ or:

['\br', sprintf('List of Accelerometers Matching the Selected Criteria (%d of %d)',...

count,totalcount), '\rm'];

Btw, do not overwrite the existing function "title" by a variable.