On 18 Oct 2016, at 12:27, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net<mailto:st.w...@gmx.net>> wrote:
Am 18.10.2016 um 13:10 schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>>: On 18 Oct 2016, at 12:05, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org<mailto:kor...@lyx.org>> wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016 um 10:57:08, schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>> On 18 Oct 2016, at 11:39, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org<mailto:kor...@lyx.org><mailto:kor...@lyx.org>> wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016 um 10:12:50, schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk><mailto:pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>> Hi all, I’ve searched the list and though this is not the first time the problem is noted, I haven’t been able to find any solution. The short of it is: it just won’t work. So for instance if I type “5+2” then invoke Edit/Math/CAS, I only get a lonely = side to the right of the expression, and no result (see screenshot) I am currently running Lyx 2.2.0 on Mac Os Sierra, but I had exactly the same problem under Maverick and El Capitan with previous Lyx versions, namely, nothing happens. I have specified the paths correctly (I think) to where the apps are (Mathematica, Maxima, Maple - nothing seems to work), and I can see the software calling the app (math-extern maxima), or (math-extern mathematica), but no result is churned out. Here is what I have in the "PATH prefix" field under Lyx->Preferences->Paths: /Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/texbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin:/opt/local/bin:/Library/TeX/local/bin:/Library/TeX/bin:/Library/TeX/X11R6/bin:/Library/TeX/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/Library/TeX/usr/local/bin:/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel:/Applications/Maxima.app:/Applications/Maple 18/Maple 18.app Can anyone please help? Many thanks, Paola [cid:1CA68732-253E-465F-82E6-7DF587AC9DB0@st-andrews.ac.uk] I'd try calling lyx with '-dbg mathed' parameter from a console window. Alternatively use View->Messages Pane->Settings Check 'Selected' Double click on 'mathed - Math editor' back to 'Output' ... calling: maxima input: 'simpsum:true;tex(5 + 2);' output: '7' Buffer.cpp (3449): updateMacro of novýsúbor9.lyx 12:31:27.889: Automatický úklad hotový. Here it shows: 12:38:28.705: Alt+M Afinding 'finding 'finding 'use whole cell: checking expr: '5 + 2' calling: maxima input: 'simpsum:true;tex(5 + 2);' output: '7' Kornel many thanks Kornel for your prompt reply, I’ve tried what you suggested, and what I got is no output, namely: 11:55:08.254: (math-extern maxima)finding 'finding 'finding 'use whole cell: checking expr: '5 + 2' calling: maxima input: 'simpsum:true;tex(5 + 2);’ does this suggest where the problem is? No, missing: output: '7' What happens if you call maxima from the console window and input the string '(5+2);' followed by <Return>? Here I get: (%i1) (5+2); (%o1) 7 (%i2) thanks, Paola Kornel from the console I get the same as you: (%i2) 5+2; (%o2) 7 (%i3) How did you call maxima in terminal? I have it installed too and it looks like that: ======== $ ls -l /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources total 480 -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan admin 577 22 Apr 2013 AppSettings.plist -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan admin 27964 22 Apr 2013 MainMenu.nib -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan admin 198769 4 Dez 2012 appIcon.icns drwxr-xr-x@ 7 stephan admin 238 22 Apr 2013 maxima -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 stephan admin 341 22 Apr 2013 maxima.sh -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan admin 1358 18 Nov 2012 script -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 stephan admin 409 22 Apr 2013 xmaxima.sh $ /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima/bin/maxima /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima/bin/maxima: line 199: exec: sbcl: not found $ /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh Maxima 5.30.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp SBCL 1.0.55.0-abb03f9 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) ======== It seems one has to start maxima.sh to get the command line interface. I’m not sure LyX knows it. In any case one has to add "/Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources“ to the PATH. Stephan thanks Stephan, I used “exec '/Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh’ “ although I also just launch the Maxima.app from the launcher. At any rate I have added your line to the path, reconfigured LyX, closed and reopened, but alas no change :-(
