Q:

Text and Plots in Matlab to LaTeX

I like to create a "report generation" script in Matlab.  
Suppose we have a Matlab array, data and we want to export the following to a .tex file:
"The information in the first element of data is X." This would be followed by a plot of X.
I have already tried help latex in Matlab and aware of the various packages on Matlab file exchange.  However I have seen nothing so far that will allow me to export both text and plots in the same Matlab script to a .tex file.  

A:

The publish function may work for you. 
Create this script, foo.m:
%%
% The information in the first element of data is X.

plot(X)

And publish it to LaTeX:
>> publish foo latex

A:

Are you aware of matlab2tikz?  i've used it extensively for my PhD-Thesis, albeit only for exporting single plots.  But I guess it should be easily possible to whip something up that combines the power of MATLABs LaTeX export capabilities. 

A:

You might want to take a look at this article published in TUGboat (the official magazine of the TeX Users Group):
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77seta.pdf
Generating LaTeX documents through Matlab (S. E. Talole and S. B. Phadke)
Good luck!