Am 19.10.2016 um 09:54 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: > > Am 19.10.2016 um 08:45 schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>: >> >> On 19 Oct 2016, at 07:43, Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 18 Oct 2016, at 21:28, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 18.10.2016 um 18:45 schrieb Paola Manzini <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk>: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 18 Oct 2016, at 16:49, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016 um 15:32:08, schrieb Paola Manzini >>>>>> <pm...@st-andrews.ac.uk> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>>> hi Stephan, thanks for the scissor tip, will never look at 8< the same >>>>>>> way again :-) >>>>>>> I’ve followed all your steps, but sadly still nothing has changed - >>>>>>> tough maybe I have erred somewhere? Here is what I did: >>>>>>> First of all I created the wrapper file, and put it in HOME\bin, which >>>>>>> I had already created following your instructions. >>>>>>> Then I’ve run >>>>>>> $ cat $HOME/bin/maxima >>>>>>> in the terminal window, and got the two lines of the new “wrapper” >>>>>>> file. >>>>>>> Then put both ~/bin and HOME/bin in the LyX path for good measure, >>>>>>> reconfigured LyX, closed Lyx and relaunched it, and again, it does not >>>>>>> work. >>>>>>> So I thought maybe I should also have run the last two of the three >>>>>>> other lines of code to be run in the terminal. Did that, but as you can >>>>>>> see from the attachment after running that command I do not get a “$” >>>>>>> sign, but a “>” as terminal prompt. Maybe this is the problem? >>>>>>> Thanks for your patience! >>>>>> >>>>>> No problem. Simply type the 2 lines, cat is awaiting input. >>>>>> To end the input you have to enter EOF, probably it is control+D. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kornel >>>>> >>>>> thanks Kornel (and Stephan), but now the result is that the maxima >>>>> wrapper has been overwritten by empty lines! >>>>> So just to recap what I’ve done: >>>>> 1. created the wrapper file, called it maxima, put it in HOME/bin, and >>>>> checked it is there with the correct content by running the command “$ >>>>> cat $HOME/bin/maxima” (no quotes) in the terminal window; I can also see >>>>> the file in finder >>>>> 2. run the three commands in the terminal window, where after the second >>>>> line I had to use ctrl D to signal end of file >>>>> as a result, the “maxima” file has become an empty file (indeed, running >>>>> “$ cat $HOME/bin/maxima” in the terminal window returns empty lines. >>>>> No change in behaviour in Lyx. If it helps, I have also Maple and >>>>> Mathematica installed on my machine, but no luck invoking them from LyX >>>>> either. >>>>> screenshot of terminal window is attached in case it is of any help. >>>>> Above all, thanks for taking the time with this. >>>>> paola >>>>> <Screen Shot 2016-10-18 at 17.44.15.png> >>>> >>>> Hi Paola, >>>> >>>> I tried to be as verbose as I can - but it was too terse, sorry. >>>> >>>> Two points: >>>> 1. The dollar sign in front of my command line text shouldn’t be typed. >>>> It’s usual to mark text input as terminal input. >>>> 2. The EOF marker is an arbitrary text and should have been typed as given. >>>> >>>> I’ll attach a screen shot of a my terminal session to prepared the wrapper >>>> script. >>>> >>>> Finally the correct PATH extension in LyX settings is important. >>>> Either it should be „$HOME/bin“ or „~/bin“ - having both does not harm >>>> but it slightly reduces the startup speed of every external script. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Stephan >>>> >>>> <Bildschirmfoto 2016-10-18 um 22.17.21.png> >>>> >>> >>> Dear Stephan, >>> thanks so much for the time you are taking on this, and apologies for being >>> slow! I have tried following exactly what you did, but there seems to be a >>> problem when I get to “which maxima” - I get an empty line. On the other >>> hand, the >>>>>>> cat $HOME/bin/maxima >>> does return the contents of the file, and I do see a newly created maxima >>> file in the “bin” folder (in finder) - maybe my system is missing some >>> other component? >>> Again, many thanks, >>> Paola >> p.s. >> screenshot attached >> <Screen Shot 2016-10-19 at 07.40.07.png> > > Dear Paola, > > no problem, we’re almost there. > > Sorry, I forgot to adjust the PATH setting in terminal. > I have $HOME/bin already in PATH in terminal. > This is not standard, obviously - so let’s add it for the test :) > This is the equivalent of adding $HOME/bin to LyX PATH settings. > > See the screenshot. > > Regards, > Stephan
Oops, the screenshot… the blue text is my keyboard input.
