On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Nicu Tofan <nicu.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your reply, Richard. > >> Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the >> GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a >> common Python-based interface. > > One of the packages it includes is Maxima. > This looks promising.
> Having an infrastructure in place is a big plus. > There's been once a long discussion on the topic of CAS support in LyX, which you may want to look into [1]. One of the main issues pointed there concerned the need for heuristics when evaluating LaTeX expressions [2]; if this can be improved and rendered more robust then it would be a great contribution. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77929.html > I would like to hear from > the R users about how they would like to see LyX enhanced. Maybe there is a > convergence somewhere. > I am not sure what is the scope of Sage. Is it symbolic evaluation plus computations, similar to the way Maxima et al. are used in LyX math environments? Or can it be used to perform complex mathematical and statistical procedures, as R does? Currently Sweave and Maxima et al. support in LyX are rather orthogonal. As far as I can see LyX & Sweave do as much as LaTeX & Sweave are capable of, so I don't anticipate many improvements on this front: more keeping everything robust and up-to-date. One possible improvement would be to provide a native LyX inset for R code, which may slightly improve the workflow (#6753). Another improvement is support for several other packages extending Sweave, via additional modules (#7887). But again, this seems to overlap very little with the CAS support. Regards Liviu > Glad to hear that the general idea fits with your views. I will examine the > code and will came back with specific ideas. Meanwhile, if anyone feels like > dropping a thought about this, I would be happy to read it. > > Nick > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
