On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > 11/02/2014 13:06, Rami Veiberman: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm using maxima as a smart calculator while working on my documents >> inside lyx and it is working quite well. I also use wxmaxima by itself >> to make some calculations and symbolic math easily. >> >> I wish I could do both. I wonder if I can open maxima session using a >> command at lyx which will evaluate all maxima indicated cells and help >> me create my smart document. > > > > It is possible to do that with R already (with packages Sweave or knitr). To > do that with maxima, you would need to find a command-line version of what > emaxima seems to do (judging from my quick google query). Once you find it, > we can help you to create a module for LyX. > > JMarc
Writing a Maxima engine for knitr might be a possibility. See: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/ Of course, this would still need R to be installed. Also consider SageTeX, which I believe uses Maxima: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules#toc8 Scott
