On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:04:47PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > but the main problem AFAIK is that LaTeX (and thus LyX) > does not have enough structure for some things. For example, if you > write > x = ab > macsima/octave/maple will have to guess that there is an implied * > between a and b. Similarly for > x = \int_0^1 f(x)dx
This is indeed the hard problem. The conversion scripts per se could be lengthy, but they are certainly trivial. I basically see a clean and a hackish solution: The hackish solution would try to guess where to put the '*' and what constitutes an integral etc. This will probably most of the times but fail in the more convoluted cases. Another advantage: All "historic math" will be usable. The clean solution is to provide real math insets or predefined macros for every supported non-trivial construct. So one basically has to use a 'invisible multiplication' or an 'int macro' instead of the separate \int, _0^1, f, (, ... items. Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
