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mlreportgen.dom.CounterReset Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.dom

Reset numbering stream counters

Description

Reset numbering stream counters.

The mlreportgen.dom.CounterReset class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

counterResetObj = CounterReset creates an empty counter reset object.

example

counterResetObj = CounterReset(streamNames) creates a counter re-setter for each specified numbering streams. Assigning this format to the style of a DOM object causes the associated stream counters to be reset to their initial values when the object is appended to a document.

Input Arguments

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Numbering stream names, specified as a character vector. To specify multiple stream names, add a space between the stream names.

Properties

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

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Numbering stream name, specified as a character vector. To specify multiple stream names, add a space between the stream names.

Tag for mlreportgen.dom.CounterReset object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM 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. Specify your own tag value to help you identify where to look when an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

NonCopyable
true

Data Types: char | string

Examples

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import mlreportgen.dom.*;
doctype = 'html';
d = Document('test',doctype);
     
p = Paragraph('Chapter ');
p.Style = {CounterInc('chapter'),CounterReset('table'),...
   WhiteSpace('preserve') };
append(p,AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(d,p);
     
p = Paragraph('Table ');
append(p,AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(p,'.');
append(p,AutoNumber('table'));
p.Style = {CounterInc('table'),WhiteSpace('preserve') };
append(d,p);
     
p = Paragraph('Chapter ');
p.Style = {CounterInc('chapter'),CounterReset('table'),...
   WhiteSpace('preserve')};
append(p,AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(d,p);
     
p = Paragraph('Table ');
append(p,AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(p,'.');
append(p, AutoNumber('table'));
p.Style = {CounterInc('table'),WhiteSpace('preserve')};
append(d,p);
     
close(d);
rptview('test',doctype);

Specify multiple counter streams for chapters and for figures within the chapters.

import mlreportgen.dom.*
rpt = Document('MyReport','pdf');

chapterStyle = {WhiteSpace('pre'), ...
    CounterReset('table figure'), ...
    CounterInc('chapter') ...
    };

topicChapterStyle = {WhiteSpace('pre'), ...
    CounterReset('table figure'), ...
    CounterInc('chapter topic') ...
    };

figureStyle = {WhiteSpace('pre'), ...
    CounterInc('figure'),Italic(true)};

chapter = Heading(1,'Chapter: ');
chapter.Style = chapterStyle;
append(chapter,AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(chapter,' Introduction to number streams.');
append(rpt, chapter);

image = append(rpt,Image(which('b747.jpg')));
image.Width = '2in';
image.Height = '2in';
para = append(rpt, Paragraph('Figure '));
para.Style = figureStyle;
append(para, AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(para, '.');
append(para, AutoNumber('figure'));

image = append(rpt,Image(which('ngc6543a.jpg')));
image.Width = '2in';
image.Height = '2in';
para = append(rpt,Paragraph('Figure '));
para.Style = figureStyle;
append(para, AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(para, '.');
append(para, AutoNumber('figure'));


chapter = Heading(1, 'Chapter: ');
chapter.Style = topicChapterStyle;
append(chapter, AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(chapter,' Topic: ');
append(chapter,AutoNumber('topic'));
append(chapter,' How to reset and increment streams.');
append(rpt,chapter);

image = append(rpt,Image(which('b747.jpg')));
image.Width = '2in';
image.Height = '2in';
para = append(rpt,Paragraph('Figure '));
para.Style = figureStyle;
append(para, AutoNumber('chapter'));
append(para, '.');
append(para, AutoNumber('figure'));


close(rpt);
rptview(rpt.OutputPath);

Version History

Introduced in R2014b