I am trying to embed the jupyter console into the current LyX 2.3.2 branch. It seems doable. There is a jupyter qtconsole but it uses pyqt which makes it cumbersome to migrate to C++Qt, which LyX uses. So I wanna spend some time in developing a persistent DockView Widget in which embeds the jupyter console with the help of pybind11. It might be a long shot, though. To get it working on Windows might take some doing, but in Linux or Mac this could be easier.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:52 PM William Adams <will.ad...@frycomm.com> wrote: > I'd just like to note that I really like this idea, and would really love > to see it happen --- I tried to use Jupyter Notebook a while back, but got > bogged down for various reasons, and having its functionalities as a > stand-alone desktop app which would make nice PDFs would suit my needs > quite nicely. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:42 AM Jason Sun <ds...@cornell.edu> wrote: > >> I thought about this long and hard. It is possible to extend Lyx's >> functionality beyond the document processer. With the help you pybind 11 >> and Qt5, I think is it possible to implement some of the IDE features(think >> RStudio) in LyX. This would be extremely helpful in writing scientific >> document. Currently, my workflow is to write code in VS Code/Emacs and copy >> and paste everything back and forth between LyX and code editor. >> >> * It is not terribly cumbersome. But if we can development LyX into >> something like RStudio, it would definitely save some time. >> >> * Because LyX has support for knitr. Provided the script editor QtWidget >> and console Widget has been implemented, it won't be very hard to build a >> communication mechanism between the IDE portion and the LyX main >> buffer&main view portion. This is a little bit like Jupyter Console (think >> IPython), but with much better Latex support. >> >> My rough idea: >> >> * I think the GUI and UI design part it not so hard. We could just create >> another ViewSource-like class that inherit DockView but with editable text >> field. As for console portion, there are quite a few example QtConsole, are >> we could develop our own wheel. I remember in my undergrad OS class. the >> first project was to implement a terminal-ish stuff. As far as I am >> concerned it is not terribly difficult as long as the signals child >> processes are handled right. >> >> * The major work should be in the building a python repl inside LyX. I >> think LyX has its own Python for some of the scripting procedures, but it >> is not ideal to use this one. The better solution, IMO, is to enable >> loading the Python Interpreter the user assigned. This gives a larger >> flexibility for various reasons (say, some user might want to use >> TensorFlow. This would be greatly helpful). >> >> * with pybind11, it is not really hard to open up a python interpreter >> inside c++ applications. The developers of pybind11 gave various examples >> on how to do it. Moreover, pybind11 is a header only library, which makes >> it easy to be built into other applications. >> >> >> These are my thoughts so far. Would be nice to hear some of your ideas on >> this. >> >> >> Jason Sun >> Cornell University >> > -- *Daqian Sun* *Tel:607-379-5149* *Department of Mathematics * *Department of Economics* *Cornell University*
