Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-06, Helge Hafting wrote: > Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >> Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. >> I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and >> it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect >> tasks? >> Question: How to pass c

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to Maxima? Should we write full Maxima expr

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-25 Thread Ken
Enrico Forestieri writes: > > Ken writes: > > > It does appear to be quite simple in its capabilities and not able to > > handle even moderately complex formulas (exp(2)*exp(3)) in either > > octave or maxima. > > Note that if you type exp(2) literally, LyX has to use some heuristics in > order t

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ken writes: > It does appear to be quite simple in its capabilities and not able to > handle even moderately complex formulas (exp(2)*exp(3)) in either > octave or maxima. Note that if you type exp(2) literally, LyX has to use some heuristics in order to know what you meant. Actually, it interpre

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
Ken wrote: > It does appear to be quite simple in its capabilities and not able to > handle even moderately complex formulas (exp(2)*exp(3)) in either works here with maxima pavel

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Ken
2009/11/24 Ken : > 2009/11/24 Andre Poenitz : >> 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

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I find that this would be a real force in "converting" colleagues from SWP to Lyx. Murat 2009/11/24 Andre Poenitz : > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:39:42AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> Hello >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck wrote: >> > On 11/23/2009 02:05 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:39:42AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck 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 kno

Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima.  I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to Maxima? Should we write full Maxima expressions, instead of the st

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Ken
Olivier Ripoll 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. >

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Olivier Ripoll
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

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Ken wrote: I had a further play around with it. I added: ;C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.16.3\bin;C:\Octave\3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0\bin to the PATH prefix in the Preferences, and then restarted LyX. Now when I type 4+5 in a math field and then use Edit->Math->CAS->Octave or ->Maxima it calculates the answer

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Ken
I had a further play around with it. I added: ;C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.16.3\bin;C:\Octave\3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0\bin to the PATH prefix in the Preferences, and then restarted LyX. Now when I type 4+5 in a math field and then use Edit->Math->CAS->Octave or ->Maxima it calculates the answer and sets the

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/24/09, Ken wrote: > How does one set up LyX to use Octave, Maxima, etc.? > As long as maxima and lyx are installed, it should work out of the box. Liviu

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread rgheck
On 11/24/2009 06:39 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck 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 suppo

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Liviu Andronic wrote, On 24/11/09 11:39: Hello On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck 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

CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck 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 suppo