Okay, thanks for the advice, Yair.

@Alex – this blog handles advanced topics that are quite often beyond the basics. You obviously need to learn the basics first. You can start here or here.

@Alex – closing tags are not necessary in HTML labels used in Matlab (or Java Swing in general).

The reason that @Maciek doesn’t see the red “label” word is because his component is simply too narrow. When the container is too narrow, HTML simply truncates the extra text. If you increase the component width from 40 pixels to 100 pixels, you will see the entire text nicely.

Because author forgot the closing </i> tag, obviously.

@Miguel – simply set your handles.a button’s String property value to labelStr

labelStr = '∀β bold label';
jLabel = javaObjectEDT('javax.swing.JLabel',labelStr);
[hcomponent,hcontainer] = javacomponent(jLabel,[100,100,150,20],gcf);

handles.box{1} = uiextras.HButtonBox;
handles.a = uicontrol('Parent', handles.box{1}, 'String', string);

where string is supposed to be the text from [hcomponent,hcontainer]

Thanks.

@Jerry – You can link text items to Matlab callbacks in the normal manner, by setting the handle’s callbacks (e.g., ButtonDownFcn). However, this does not get propagated to PDF output.

So,
1) how is a hyperlink inserted into an annotation box on a figure? …
2) … such that when it is printed (or saved) to PDF, the link is still a valid hyperlink in the PDF?
Thanks