Installation guide

8 Publishing Results
Entering MATLAB
Commands in an M-Book
Note A g ood way to l
earn how to use Notebook is to open the sample M-book,
Readme.doc,and
try out the various techniques described in this section. You
can find this fi
le in the
matlabroot/notebook/pc directory.
You e nter MATLAB
commands in an M -book the same way you enter text in
any o ther Word do
cument. For example, you can e nter the following text
in a Word docume
nt. The example uses text in Courier Font but you can
use any font:
Here is a sample M-book.
a = magic(3)
To execute the MA
TLAB
magic command in this document, y ou must
• Define the comm
and as an input cell
• Evaluate the inp
ut cell
MATLAB displays
the output of the command in the Word document in an
output cell.
Protecting the
Integrity of Your Workspace in
M-Books
When you work on
more than one M-book in a single word proce ssing s ession,
note that:
• Each M-book us
es the same “copy” of MATLAB.
• A ll M-books sh
are the same workspace.
If you use the s
ame variable names in more than one M-book, data used in
one M-book can
be affected by another M -book. You can protect the integrity
of your worksp
ace by specifying the
clear command as the first autoinit
cell in the M-
book.
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