2011/11/27 Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> > ** > On 11/27/2011 11:32 AM, Nicu Tofan wrote: > > Hello. > > This message is related to this inquiry on Sage Ask > forum<http://ask.sagemath.org/question/935/mathcad-like-front-end-for-sage> > and, later, on Sage developers mailing > list<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/sage-devel/fqaMLOP0Y6w>. > This is how I found > LyX. > > What I'm after is the ability to integrate the Sage computational engine > into LyX, creating a MathCad like environment. On top of that, allowing > to create and integrate code using a dual approach (both visual and > textual, like in Bouml <http://bouml.free.fr/>) would further enhance the > editor. > > My intention is to either contribute to LyX, if the ideas that I've > presented > here fit in current vision, or to make a fork. I would like to ask if > there is > previous work in this regard and any other thoughts that you may have > about what I said here. > > I don't know anything about Sage, but LyX already has some ability to use > mathematica, maxima, and similar engines, as well as packages like Sweave > and R. So there's infrastructure within LyX that you may be able to use. I > know a lot of us would like to see the existing stuff improved, and getting > it to work with something FOSS would be great. There's actually a lot of > activity these days around R; a lot of people seem to be using LyX with it. > But not much special support. It's most a matter of making it easier to > enter R code verbatim. > > So I think I speak for everyone in saying that the general idea certainly > fits into what we think LyX is. Of course, the details are everything here, > so no promises at this point. But if you want to start a git branch (we're > moving toward git), and start work there, then we can all keep up with what > you are doing. You can fork later if you think you need to do so. > > Richard > > Thank you for your reply, Richard.
*Sage* is a free open-source <http://hg.sagemath.org/> mathematics software > system licensed under the GPL. It combines the > power<http://www.sagemath.org/tour.html>of many existing open-source > packages <http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html> into a common > Python-based interface. > One of the packages it includes is Maxima. Having an infrastructure in place is a big plus. I would like to hear from the R users about how they would like to see LyX enhanced. Maybe there is a convergence somewhere. Glad to hear that the general idea fits with your views. I will examine the code and will came back with specific ideas. Meanwhile, if anyone feels like dropping a thought about this, I would be happy to read it. Nick
