Janek Kozicki wrote:
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I see now, that such integration would require at least a running
maxima session in the background.
I'm quite experienced with latex and C++.
I am not sure if I decide to go this path, I want to investigate and
judge the difficulty of writing patches that will scratch my itch.
I don't know what is the current state of lyx+maxima integration, and
I asked for ML archives in order to check this.
Not sure what you want to do, but there is some LyX integration with
maxima. You can write a formula in LyX, and then use this menu:
Edit->Math->Use Computer algebra system->Maxima
This will do transformations such as:
"1+1+x+x" becomes "1+1+x+x=2x+2"
Calculus:
"\int x^2 dx" becomes "\int x^2=\frac{x^3}{3}"
"\int\int\frac{x}{y} turns into \frac{x^2 \log{y}}{2}
\frac{d}{dx}\frac{1+x}{1-x}
turns into
\frac{x+1}{\left(1-x\right)^{2}}+\frac{1}{1-x}
And so on. Apparently, there are many limitations though. Maxima can do
more, the communication between LyX and maxima is limited. You can't do
matrix multiplication, for example.
Helge Hafting
