I don't know a lot about Matlab's built-in publishing capabilities, but I'd be surprised if what you are looking for is possible via that route.
Assuming you're running on Windows, what I would propose would be to create the Word document using your existing process and then embed the file using Word's COM interface. Let Word_fname be the name of the Word file in which you wish to embed a second file, called filename. These should be fully-resolved filenames. You can do something like:
%%Create COM objects
Word_COM = actxserver('Word.Application');
File_COM = Word_COM.Documents.Open(Word_fname);
Word_COM.Visible = 1;
%%Go to the end of the file
wdStory = 6;
Word_COM.Selection.EndKey(wdStory);
%%Try to get icon information
[pathstr, name, ext] = fileparts(filename);
applink = winqueryreg('HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT',ext);
try
app = winqueryreg('HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT',[applink '\DefaultIcon']);
if strcmpi(ext,'.xml')
icon_filename = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\msxml3.dll';
icon_index = 0;
elseif strfind(app,',')
[token, remain] = strtok(app,',');
icon_filename = token;
icon_index = str2double(remain(2:end));%Strip off the comma and extract the icon index
else
icon_filename = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll';
icon_index = 0;
end
catch ME
icon_filename = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll';
icon_index = 0;
end
%%Embed object
Word_COM.Selection.TypeParagraph;%Add a carriage return
Word_COM.Selection.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject('',filename,false,true,icon_filename,icon_index,[name ext]);
Word_COM.Selection.TypeParagraph;%Add a carriage return
This isn't ideal since you need to post-process the Word document after publishing it, but you could turn this code into a function that is relatively simple to use.
Good luck,
Eric
