On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:03:29AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:41:02PM +0200, geof wrote: > > I'm new on this mailing list but I'm using lyx for a long time now. > > I have some questions about the lyx-server and how to use it. > > My idea is to use the lyx-server to access the Mathematica's (from Wolfram) > > equation manipulation facilities. For example, pasting equation from > > Mathematica to lyx or using Mathematica commands like "Simplify", "Factor" > > directly on lyx formulas. > > Things like that work (rudimentarily) already for Maple and Octave in > 1.2.0. The missing Mathematica support results mainly from me not being > able to get Mma up and running on my Linux box. I have a licenced copy in > reach and it looks as though it contains a Windows and Solaris version on > the CDs but failed to install it on Linux (can't remember what went > wrong exactly).
How about adding support to Maxima, which is GPL (unlike Maple/Mathematica) ? Another free CAS is MuPAD, but it is not open source.
