uitable with latex or greek letters

I am working in App Designer,

i want to create a table with 2 collumns where first collumn is a parameter name, something like "$\gamma^a_b$"

and second collumn would be numeric and editable.

It seems like neither UITable or UIStyle have latex interpreter,

i have seen answers from 2016 with unicode characters and html tags, but either i'm doing something wrong or they do not work anymore.

app.AllParamTable = uitable(app.AllParamPanel);
app.AllParamTable.ColumnName = {'Parameter'; 'Value'};
app.AllParamTable.ColumnEditable = [false true];

parDisp={'\alpha_1','V^G_C'};
params={'alpha1','VGC'};
for i=1:numel(params)
    app.AllParamTable.Data{i,1}=parDisp{i};
    app.AllParamTable.Data{i,2}=app.p.Param.(params); %app.p.Param is a struct, and will always return numeric.
end

Answer 1

[Dave B]

Starting in R2022a, the Interpreter property is supported in uistyle.

Previous answer (Aug 9, 2021)

I believe html tags are not currently supported in uitable when in a uifigure (i.e. created in App Designer)

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/370979-uitable-html-not-being-read

However the greek letter part is a little easier, you can use unicode for this (char(945), or just use an α in your code):

u = uitable(uifigure);
u.Data{1}=char(945); % or u.Data{1}='α';

[Sean de Wolski]

uitable(uifigure, "Data", ["α";"μ"])

[Deividas Eringis]

great that solves part of my issue,

if html tags are not supported are there any other ways to use subscripts/superscripts?

[Dave B]

I don't have a good solution for superscript/subscript. This is really out of the box and I realize far from ideal:

• You can sort of fake a superscript g (but not G) with unicode: char(7586)
• There's no subscript for c or C but there is a gamma: char(7527)

uitable(uifigure,'data',{['V' 7586 7527]})

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

You could use a uihtml component with an embedded table. Of course this table will not be interactive, but if it's for display only then it would work.

Answer 3

[Amanda Irving]

Starting in R2022a, Interpreter is supported in uistyle:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uistyle.html