MatLab Report Generator Word Wrap Issues

I have a pdf generated via MatLab Report Generator. I have a few remaining issues. I have spent days trying to resolve via search of this and other forums.

I am posting each issue individually.

This issue. Word Wrap at the end of a line in a table.

I am successfully populating a table with text and the table is placed as I wish on the page. The problem is that words are truncated at the end of a line and then continue on the next. I wish to use the behaviour where words are not split at the end of a line before any combination of cr/lf.

Ps. These settings make no difference.

MyDescrTbl.Style = {Hyphenation(true)};

or

MyDescrTbl.Style = {Hyphenation(false)};

Answer 1

[Sameer Pujari]

Hi Matt

To get the text to wrap to the second line by separating at a "space" rather than in the middle of a word when using the MATLAB Report Generator, you need to customize the default PDF template used by performing the following:

1. Create a new PDF template from the default PDF template:

>> mlreportgen.dom.Document.createTemplate('mytemplate','pdf');

2. This creates a new PDF template file, "mytemplate.pdftx". Then unzip the template, to gain access to the "root.css" file which allows you to define PDF styles:

>> unzipTemplate('mytemplate.pdftx')

3. In the new folder that is created go to the "stylesheets" folder and open "root.css" to edit in MATLAB or in a text editor.

4. Add the following style to the "table" entry in the CSS file:

-ah-word-break: keep-all

5. Save the CSS file and now zip the template to create an updated "mytemplate.pdftx" file:

>> zipTemplate('mytemplate.pdftx');

6. Then create a "Report" object, by passing the new template as an input argument:

>> d = Report("mydoc","pdf", "mytemplate.pdftx");

For more information on creating a PDF template please visit the following documentation link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/create-an-html-or-pdf-template.html

For more information on the different styles you can modify for a PDF template please visit the following documentation link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/modify-styles-in-pdf-templates.html

[Matt O'Brien]

I really appreciate your detailed response to this. I will need to digest your answer and then try to apply this to my current approach.

I am surprised that such a basic feature requires such a compex solution and is not available as a basic option. Anyway, I am grateful for your reply and will do my homework.

Thank you.

[Matt O'Brien]

I am seriously impressed with this response and also delightesd to see the links to the related documentation. Thank you.

[Matt O'Brien]

Here is where I inserted the code in the CSS file.

I inserted line 182 as recommended above.

I am eternally grateful for this solution. It has worked for all the samples I have tested.

[Matthew Penning]

Hello,

Currently I am not able to get this solution to work for me. Was wondering if maybe when I was setting the column and row styles it would override this? Any suggestions? Below is a snip of the code where I am styling the table - in case there is anything in there that may be conflicting.

reftbl = Table([header;row]);  % Create the table 
%Style overall table
reftbl.Style = {OuterMargin('0pt', '0pt', '0pt', '10pt'), ...  % Set table margins
             Width('100%')};  % Set table width
reftbl.TableEntriesStyle = {Border('solid','black','1')};
reftbl.HAlign = 'center';  % Center align the table
%Style columns
groups(1) = TableColSpecGroup();
for ww = 1:8
    specs(ww) = TableColSpec();
    specs(ww).Style = { HAlign('Center'),FontSize('8pt') };
end
groups(1).ColSpecs = specs;
reftbl.ColSpecGroups = groups;
%style top row
topRow = reftbl.Children(1,1);
topRow.Style = {BackgroundColor('lightgrey'),Bold(true)};

[Paul Kinnucan]

The following example shows how to enable word break programmatically:

import mlreportgen.dom.*

d = Document("brkrpt","pdf");
t = Table({"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec malesuada est posuere, dapibus ipsum vitae, ultrices neque. Ut vulputate purus nunc, quis ultrices lectus facilisis nec. Pellentesque scelerisque sagittis tempor. Donec blandit lobortis diam, eget gravida mi porttitor vitae. Etiam porttitor, tellus vitae facilisis faucibus, felis est aliquam velit, consectetur pharetra metus nunc eu nisi. Suspendisse potenti. Ut vel nibh ipsum. Phasellus eget egestas lorem."});
t.Style = {ResizeToFitContents(false), FOProperties(FOProperty('ah-word-break','keep-all'))};
append(d,t);
close(d);
rptview(d);