On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:05:51AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm surprised that in the lyx-1.2.0 announcement, there's no mention of > "math-extern" function in the newly added features. > > I have been using "math-extern" with Maple nearly everyday for several > months and it becomes quite stable in current lyx-1.2.0. You can > integrate, differentiate, simplify, factorize,.... within mathed.
I've seen that this feature was not mentioned in the announcement, but than this is really not complete yet, and, more important, it is really just a big hack. So I thought we could as well keep it "secret", and work on it for a while and have something for the next release... > What it cannot do is to define functions and to load extra packages. So > solving differential equations within mathed is not possible at the > moment, but eventually will be done, Right, Andre Poenitz? This is indeed a severe limitation. I have a secret plan on how to overcome this deficiency, but it will take a while ;-} > I think with this newly added feature, lyx is now competing with > "WorkPlace" in real sense. > Any comments? I personally only use the octave "backend" as some kind of built-in calculator, but if people are using it for serious work I think it could be added to the announcement at least on the web page. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
