Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
>
> Now, why not integrate[1] Maxima and maybe Octave too to LyX? Imagine
> writing an equation in LyX, and selecting "solve" from Math menu and your
> equation would be solved?
>
> In any case, some automatic way to transfer data between
> Maxima<->Octave<->Scilab<->LyX would be great. It's not nice to copy all
> the numbers by hand between Scilab and LyX, nor formulas between Maxima
> and LyX.
Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro
language, they could communicate with Lyx through what is called the Lyx
Server. Using this, you could implement macros that tell or ask Lyx
something.
Timm
