Re: (Not so) wild development ideas

2000-03-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Diego" == Diego A Puertas F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> Doesn't sound like a good idea to have the "Insert Cross Diego> Reference" box list the labels indented? Diego> The labels indented by the place where they were declared. It Diego> will be a lot much easier to find one of them

(Not so) wild development ideas

2000-03-16 Thread Diego A. Puertas F.
Doesn't sound like a good idea to have the "Insert Cross Reference" box list the labels indented? The labels indented by the place where they were declared. It will be a lot much easier to find one of them when you have (like in my case) about 250 of them. I mean something like this: . The

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-16 Thread Uwe Amann
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Uwe Amann wrote: > > > While I agree with you, that a LaTeX parser would be very hard to > > implement, why not try a different solution. I will try to describe > > I still think that an heuristic algorithm would do moderatel

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-16 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Uwe Amann wrote: > While I agree with you, that a LaTeX parser would be very hard to > implement, why not try a different solution. I will try to describe I still think that an heuristic algorithm would do moderately good work and it would not be that hard, actually, to impl

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Uwe Amann
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Subject: Re: wild development ideas > > > Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro > > language, > > Most of the interesting programs are scriptable. Maple e.g: > > echo "l

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Reading http://www.sciface.com/products/demos/index.shtml, it seems that > MuPad is for practical purposes equivalent to Maxima. In fact the syntax > seems to be so similar that I wonder if it's derived from Macsyma. Definitely not. AFAIK MuPAD was build from scratch and has no connection at al

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>equals ..." oops. What? Exactly, push the 'evaluate' button and the > >>result is inserted. You are far more productive this way than launching > >>a seperate application and do import and export manually. > >>Andre' > But this use is not so fr

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Well, MuPAD is more or less free, Yes, but it is not GNU. Apparently it isn't even open source. > Maple costs. The other day my boss So it's out of question, IMHO. > I can't compare any of them to Maxima though... Reading http://www.sciface.com/pr

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>From: Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: wild development ideas >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:44 +0100 (MET) >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> I really don't see the point of being able to write matl

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I really don't see the point of being able to write matlab code > from LyX; Have you ever used Scientific Workplace? Imagine something like LyX. You start writing "It is well know that the integral \int e^x sin^2 x dx equals ..." oops. What? Exactly, push the 'eva

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:22:35 +0200 >>From: Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: wild development ideas >> >>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: >>

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Offtopic, but I wonder is MuPad/Maple better than Maxima? I personally > believe they are not but this is just a belief. Well, MuPAD is more or less free, Maple costs. The other day my boss installed MuPAD and told me afterwards that its far from Maple's capabilities. I do trust him in this cas

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: > The problem is parsing. First you have to convert from > LyX formula (sort of LaTeX) to Maple syntax which is *not* trivial > since LaTeX does not preserve the logical structure of the formula Yes, but from LyX ro Octave/Scilab should be actually very

Re: not-so-wild wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Norm Matloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Here is something which is relatively easy to implement but which I | believe would be helpful to many people: A word-completion feature | in the LyX editor, like those of various other editors. | | For example, suppose I wish to type the word "reali

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Staffan Ringbom
The idea is implemented in Scientific Workplace (www.tcisoft.com) There it is possible to use Maple or Mathematica from a latex(2.09)-shell. Isn't is possible to use Mathematica from MS-word as well (Wolfram should have a addon for that??) Would indeed be nice to use Scilab or MuPAD or Maxima (

not-so-wild wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Norm Matloff
Here is something which is relatively easy to implement but which I believe would be helpful to many people: A word-completion feature in the LyX editor, like those of various other editors. For example, suppose I wish to type the word "realization", and it already exists elsewhere in my docum

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Raymond E. Rogers
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro > > language, > > Most of the interesting programs are scriptable. Maple e.g: > > echo "lprint(expand((x+1)^3));" | maple -q > > --> x^3+3*x^2+3*x+1 > > The problem is parsing. First y

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro > language, Most of the interesting programs are scriptable. Maple e.g: echo "lprint(expand((x+1)^3));" | maple -q --> x^3+3*x^2+3*x+1 The problem is parsing. First you have to convert from LyX formula (sort of L

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread timm danker
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > Now, why not integrate[1] Maxima and maybe Octave too to LyX? Imagine > writing an equation in LyX, and selecting "solve" from Math menu and your > equation would be solved? > > In any case, some automatic way to transfer data between > Maxima<->Octave<->Scilab<->LyX

wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
This would belong really to lyx-devel, but I'm not used to use that mailing list... I just found a _great_ symbolic mathematics program called Maxima. It's GNU version of Macsyma, which in turn is over 30 years old software. But it's great, comparable to Mathematica (well, I have never really use