Olivier Ripoll <durocortorum73-gm...@...> writes:
> 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
Very cool! I added:
Separator
Item "Maxima|M" "math-extern maxima"
Item "Octave|O" "math-extern octave"
and both work on my Windows XP, LyX 1.6.4 machine.
Thanks!
P.S. The "context menu" (for those that didn't catch the meaning straight
away--I didn't) is the menu you see when you right-click on the equation.
