This contains some workarounds for annoying bugs in MATLAB's publish function

MATLAB publish tweaks.md

Some workaround to common problems with MATLAB's publish()

Slow scatter

Problem: Horrible slowdowns when using scatter() in a script that you want to publish Solution: Don't use scatter. Use plot(x,y,'.') instead.

Combinatorial Figure mess

Problem: Horrible slowdown when publishing a document that has many figures in it. Symptom: You will see MATLAB cycling through all open figures. This means that it does something like this:

make fig 1
make fig 2
bring fig 1 to front
bring fig 2 to front
make fig 3
bring fig 1 to front...
...and so on.

You can see why this can become a problem.

The solution: Insert the following code after every time you're done with a figure:

snapnow();
delete(gcf);

And this really makes publish much faster