On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:39:42AM +0000, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: > > On 11/23/2009 02:05 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> If I am not mistaking, symbolic calculations can be performed in LyX > >> via maxima, octave, etc. > >> > > I don't know how current the support is, but yes, there are routines in > > mathed that support exporting to these sorts of formats: Mathematica, too. > > So some work may need to be done, but we don't see a lot of requests for > > this kind of thing. I haven't seen anyone working on it since I've been > > involved in LyX. > > > One of the reasons for so few requests could be that the nifty feature > is so well hidden. Other than not being mentioned on the features page > [1], I couldn't find info on CAS (maxima and the likes) in any of the > possible documentation files, from Introduction through Math. Even the > feature-poll page contains a non-greened-out request for CAS [2]. In > the GUI, it is not much simpler. After having written a math > expression (say, 'x+x'), right-clicking on the math env will not show > anything CAS-related, while the math toolbars do not propose anything > obvious. > > Thus, to discover the CAS support in LyX a user would need to go the > sometimes improbable way of writing in math env and, while there, > accessing the Edit > Math > Use CAS menu. Of course, an alternative > path would be Google.
The current CAS support in LyX is a toy, no more. Really. There is not enough flesh to justify documentation. It would not take lot of effort to make it work considerably better, but seemingly there was not enough interest in the last six or eight years to make that happen. Andre'
