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Subject:    CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)
From:       Liviu Andronic <landronimirc () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-11-24 11:39:42
Message-ID: 68b1e2610911240339o4e0c32f7qaeb312b1c9077551 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hello

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck <rgheck@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.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.lyx.org/Features
[2] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll#toc15
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