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Subject:    Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)
From:       Murat Yildizoglu <murat.yildizoglu () univ-cezanne ! fr>
Date:       2009-11-24 19:00:19
Message-ID: 9377b9850911241100n2a97f8ftad91b7d18051027f () mail ! gmail ! com
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I find that this would be a real force in "converting" colleagues from
SWP to Lyx.

Murat

2009/11/24 Andre Poenitz <andre.poenitz@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 <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.
>
> 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'
>



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