On 11/27/2011 11:32 AM, Nicu Tofan wrote: > Hello. > > This message is related to this inquiry on Sage Ask forum > <http://ask.sagemath.org/question/935/mathcad-like-front-end-for-sage> > and, later, on Sage developers mailing list > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/sage-devel/fqaMLOP0Y6w>. > This is how I found > LyX. > > What I'm after is the ability to integrate the Sage computational engine > into LyX, creating a MathCad like environment. On top of that, allowing > to create and integrate code using a dual approach (both visual and > textual, like in Bouml <http://bouml.free.fr/>) would further enhance > the editor. > > My intention is to either contribute to LyX, if the ideas that I've > presented > here fit in current vision, or to make a fork. I would like to ask if > there is > previous work in this regard and any other thoughts that you may have > about what I said here. > I don't know anything about Sage, but LyX already has some ability to use mathematica, maxima, and similar engines, as well as packages like Sweave and R. So there's infrastructure within LyX that you may be able to use. I know a lot of us would like to see the existing stuff improved, and getting it to work with something FOSS would be great. There's actually a lot of activity these days around R; a lot of people seem to be using LyX with it. But not much special support. It's most a matter of making it easier to enter R code verbatim.
So I think I speak for everyone in saying that the general idea certainly fits into what we think LyX is. Of course, the details are everything here, so no promises at this point. But if you want to start a git branch (we're moving toward git), and start work there, then we can all keep up with what you are doing. You can fork later if you think you need to do so. Richard
