On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:23:24PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> So what to you suggest instead? > > Maybe "Symbolic computations", but this is not very good either. Note > that you should remove the "..." anyway.
Why? I thought '...' was standard to indicate a submenu? Oh... maybe I mixed this up with a sub dialog... > Note also that, if you have problems naming a feature, then maybe this > feature is not well defined :) I have no problem naming it. It's a CAS ;-} > Actually, the code in lib/configure should probably test for what CAS is > available and have a uniform interface for all CAS by default. This is > like our VC code, which works the same for cvs and rcs. Aehm. No. See below. > I would like to be able to invoke "math-extern simplify" and have lyx > call some CAS and do the simplification. You can keep the more specific > "math-extern maple foo" for when people really know the precise operation > they want to do. E.g. Maple and octave are so different that putting them behind a common interface does not make much sense to me. Even if this were sensible we would have to hard-code "equivalents" like Maple's 'factor' and Mathematica 'Factorize(?)' and I certainly do not want to put that kind of knowledge into LyX. > Then you could have a menu entry like "Simplify expression". I think the math-extern stuff is targeted towards the "power user" anyway. So this is not the usual context where guessing intentions is apropriate. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
