I find that this would be a real force in "converting" colleagues from SWP to Lyx.
Murat 2009/11/24 Andre Poenitz <andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>: > 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' > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu ______________________________________________