Ken wrote:
That's a fantastic new discovery of a further LyX feature. As for
making it more useful, perhaps LyX needs some buttons in the math
toolbar for Octave or Maxima or a way of customizing some new buttons
to run the Edit->Math->CAS options.
That's actually easy: here is how to get the Maxima action in the
context menu:
0- close lyx if opened
1- Copy the "stdcontext.inc" file found in the common "ui" folder of LyX.
On windows, it is
"C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.4\Resources\ui", on linux, I'd expect it to be
somewhere in "/usr/share"
2- Paste this file in your own "ui" folder.
On windows, it is in
"C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\lyx16\ui"
3- with a decent text editor (accepting unix LF), find the
'Menu "context-math"' section, and at the end (after line 75, before the
'End'), add the following 2 lines (the second is taken from the
"edit_math_extern" section of file 'stdmenus.inc', if you wonder how to
add Octave, Maple, etc.)
Separator
Item "Maxima|M" "math-extern maxima"
4- save, restart lyx
Best regards,
Olivier
