On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:51:43PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> However, when working on my assignements, I usually had in other
> gnome-terminal window started octave for calculating determinants etc.
> While working on these assignements, I begun to dream about an
> improvement of LyX which would allow me to work with Octave exactly in
> LyX (something what could be done with much more primitive GNU Calc in
> Emacs). For example, let's have following in MathEd:
>
> [ 1 2 3 ]
> A = | 2 3 1 |
> [ 3 1 2 ]
> |A| =
>
> Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would insert -18
> (determinant of the matrix A).
| / 1 2 3 \ |
| | 2 3 1 | | plus "M-x math-extern octave run"
| \ 3 1 2 / |
now yields
| / 1 2 3 \ |
| | 2 3 1 | | = -18
| \ 3 1 2 / |
I know that this is not exactly what you want, but I don't know how to
figure out what "previous" assignments and results are relevant. We
certainly can't fake a full blown octave session...
Maybe you have an idea.
> OK, I am sure, that it is so complicated, that a huge rewrite of Mathed
> would be required.
I guess so... ;-)
Andre'
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