Amazing. Almost the same idea I was telling here few months ago.
Except that in my opinion LyX should be able to process math-ed equations
with Maxima (not just have Ascii-Maxima mode).
> from documentation thus far, but I plan to start using it for my work.
I'm already using :) a little though (I'm a student)
> (There is a Debian package available for 'woody' that also runs on my
> potato system.) Macsyma was funded by the DOE, and they approved the
What version it is? I'm using a version compiled myself, from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/maxima/ (seems to be version 5.4)
> also can generate TeX format equations and various graphic formats for
> plots (typically writing them to external files).
Strange. I didn't find anything about LaTeX in the docs. Would you care to
tell me which command?
(I'm not using Emacs)
> I guess the question is: does anyone want an interactive shell environment
> inside LyX for mathematical computation using Maxima or some other
Unfortunately, not me. I'm not anyway using the ascii produced by Maxima
in my LyX documents, since I want to use the beautiful LaTeX math
instead.
What Maxima needs desperately, is GNU readline. I'm planning to do it next
summer. The current line editing is awful (the only editing key working is
backspace)
Then I thought about adding LaTeX output for it, but you say it already
has it?
After that, I'll investigate how difficult it is to add WYSIWYM Maxima
support for LyX.
