Hello On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:34 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: > On 11/23/2009 02:05 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> If I am not mistaking, symbolic calculations can be performed in LyX >> via maxima, octave, etc. >> > I don't know how current the support is, but yes, there are routines in > mathed that support exporting to these sorts of formats: Mathematica, too. > So some work may need to be done, but we don't see a lot of requests for > this kind of thing. I haven't seen anyone working on it since I've been > involved in LyX. > One of the reasons for so few requests could be that the nifty feature is so well hidden. Other than not being mentioned on the features page [1], I couldn't find info on CAS (maxima and the likes) in any of the possible documentation files, from Introduction through Math. Even the feature-poll page contains a non-greened-out request for CAS [2]. In the GUI, it is not much simpler. After having written a math expression (say, 'x+x'), right-clicking on the math env will not show anything CAS-related, while the math toolbars do not propose anything obvious.
Thus, to discover the CAS support in LyX a user would need to go the sometimes improbable way of writing in math env and, while there, accessing the Edit > Math > Use CAS menu. Of course, an alternative path would be Google. Regards Liviu [1] http://www.lyx.org/Features [2] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll#toc15
