Live Scripts

Plain-text .m files that render as rich documents in the MATLAB Live Editor. Version-control friendly — never use binary .mlx.

When to Use

• Tutorials, reports, analysis notebooks, or documentation
• Interactive exploration with inline figures and equations
• Version-controlled content (plain-text .m, not binary .mlx)

When NOT to Use

• Regular scripts without rich formatting
• Function files
• MATLAB older than R2025a

Converting from .mlx

Binary .mlx files can be converted to plain-text .m by running the following at the MATLAB command window. The recipe is not part of the resulting .m file: