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mlreportgen.ppt.Text Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.ppt

Text to include in a presentation

Description

Use an object of the mlreportgen.ppt.Text class to include text in a PPT API presentation.

The mlreportgen.ppt.Text class is a handle class.

Class Attributes

HandleCompatible
true
ConstructOnLoad
true

For information on class attributes, see Class Attributes.

Creation

Description

textObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Text creates an empty mlreportgen.ppt.Text object.

textObj = mlreportgen.ppt.Text(content) creates an mlreportgen.ppt.Text object with the Content property set to content.

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Properties

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Text contained by this document element, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Font family for the text, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font that appears in the font list in Microsoft® PowerPoint®. To see the font list, in PowerPoint, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow to the right of the font.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Font family for complex scripts, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Specify a font family to use when substituting in a locale that requires a complex script, such as Arabic or Asian, to render text.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Font color for the text, specified as a character vector or string scalar that contains a CSS color name or hexadecimal RGB value.

FormatValue
CSS color nameSpecify a CSS color name. For a list of CSS color names, see https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords.
Hexadecimal RGB valueUse the format "#RRGGBB". Use # as the first character and two-digit hexadecimal numbers for the red, green, and blue values. You can use uppercase or lowercase letters.

Example: "red" specifies a red color using a CSS color name.

Example: "#0000ff" specifies a blue color using a hexadecimal RGB value.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Font size of the text, specified as a character vector or string scalar that contains a number followed by a unit of measurement. For example, "11pt" specifies 11 points. Valid abbreviations are:

  • "px" — Pixels

  • "cm" — Centimeters

  • "in" — Inches

  • "mm" — Millimeters

  • "pc" — Picas

  • "pt" — Points

You can also specify pixels by omitting the unit. For example, "5" specifies 5 pixels.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Whether to use bold for the text, specified as a logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). When you specify:

  • 1 (true) — Render text in bold.

  • 0 (false) — Render text in regular weight.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: logical

Whether to use italic for the text, specified as a logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). When you specify:

  • 1 (true) — Render text in italic.

  • 0 (false) — Render text as straight text.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: logical

Strikethrough style for the text, specified as one of these values:

  • "single" — Single horizontal line

  • "none" —No strikethrough line

  • "double" — Double horizontal line

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Whether to display the text as a subscript, specified as a logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). When you specify:. If Subscript is 1 (true), text renders as a subscript. If Subscript is 0 (false), text renders as regular text.

  • 1 (true) — Render text as a subscript.

  • 0 (false) — Render text in regular text.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: logical

Whether to display the document element as a superscript, specified as a logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). When you specify:

  • 1 (true) — Render document element as a superscript.

  • 0 (false) — Render document element in regular text.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: logical

Underline style for the text, specified as one of these values:

ValueDescription
"single"Single underline
"double"Double underline
"heavy"Thick underline
"words"Only words underlined (not spaces)
"dotted"Dotted underline
"dottedheavy"Thick, dotted underline
"dash"Dashed underline
"dashheavy"Thick, dashed underline
"dashlong"Long, dashed underline
"dashlongheavy"Thick, long, dashed underline
"dotdash"Dot-dash underline
"dotdashheavy"Thick, dot-dash underline
"dotdotdash"Dot-dot-dash underline
"dotdotdashheavy"Thick, dot-dot-dash underline
"wavy"Wavy underline
"wavyheavy"Thick, wavy underline
"wavydouble"Wavy, double underline
"none"No underline

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Text formatting, specified as a cell array of PPT format objects.

Add format objects by concatenating the existing value of the Style property with a cell array that contains the format objects that you are adding. For example:

txt = mlreportgen.ppt.Text("my text");
txt.Style = [txt.Style {Bold(true),FontColor("red")}];

See Presentation Formatting Approaches.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
private
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: cell

The class ignores this property.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
private
NonCopyable
true

Parent of this object, specified as a PPT API object. A PPT API object must only have one parent.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
private
NonCopyable
true

Tag, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Use this value to help identify where an issue occurs during presentation generation.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Object identifier, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The PPT API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the presentation element object. You can specify your own value for Id.

Attributes:

GetAccess
public
SetAccess
public
NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

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Examples

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Use an mlreportgen.ppt.Text object to add text to a presentation. This example uses mlreportgen.ppt.Text objects to add text to the title of one slide and the content of another slide.

Create a presentation.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*
ppt = Presentation("myTextPresentation.pptx");
open(ppt);

Add two slides to the presentation.

slide1 = add(ppt,"Title Slide");
slide2 = add(ppt,"Title and Content");

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.Paragraph object to use for the title of the presentation.

p1 = Paragraph;

Create an mlreportgen.ppt.Text object with bold and red content, and append it to the paragraph.

titleText = Text("My Presentation Title");
titleText.Bold = true;
titleText.FontColor = "red";
append(p1,titleText);

Replace the title in the first slide with the paragraph.

replace(slide1,"Title",p1);

Create a paragraph for the content of the second slide.

 p2 = Paragraph("My content");
 append(p2,Text(" for the second slide"));

Replace the content in the second slide with the paragraph.

 replace(slide2,"Content",p2);

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Here are the slides in the generated presentation:

Version History

Introduced in R2015b