Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Janek Kozicki janek_listy@... writes: Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ at public.gmane.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Rami wrote: I wish to know if any improvement was made since 2010. today I tried to use No. It would need someone to work on it. Perhpas you? :) Pavel

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Janek Kozicki writes: > > Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) > > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ public.gmane.org/msg77889.html > > thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be >

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Rami wrote: > I wish to know if any improvement was made since 2010. today I tried to use No. It would need someone to work on it. Perhpas you? :) Pavel

better maxima integration, devel.

Hi, I'm thinking about the possibility of using lyx as my frontend to maxima. Texmacs doesn't suit me, because I used gvim+latex for years. Since I used latex for long time it would be logical to start using lyx in order to interact with maxima. I didn't ever use lyx before, because gvim was

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Janek Kozicki wrote: [...] I see now, that such integration would require at least a running maxima session in the background. I'm quite experienced with latex and C++. I am not sure if I decide to go this path, I want to investigate and judge the difficulty of writing patches that will

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Janek Kozicki wrote: [...] I see now, that such integration would require at least a running maxima session in the background. I'm quite experienced with latex and C++. I am not sure if I decide to go this path, I want to investigate and judge the

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 3/5/10, Janek Kozicki janek_li...@wp.pl wrote: I don't know what is the current state of lyx+maxima integration, and I asked for ML archives in order to check this. Some time ago there was a lengthy discussion about CAS support in LyX [1] (including Maxima), which also contained some

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:39 -0500) On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: And so on. Apparently, there are many limitations though. Maxima can do more, the communication between LyX and maxima is limited. You can't do matrix multiplication, for

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 09:20 AM, Janek Kozicki wrote: rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:39 -0500) On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: And so on. Apparently, there are many limitations though. Maxima can do more, the communication between LyX and maxima is

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with document, in order to not confuse people. But, OTOH, to use

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with document, in order to not confuse people. But, OTOH, to use

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:18:35 -0500) Since I don't use maxima etc myself, I don't have a lot of thoughts about this. What happens at present is that LaTeX that is entered into a math inset gets translated into maxima's input format; LyX calls maxima to do the

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 10:23 AM, Janek Kozicki wrote: Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 2010-03-05, Janek Kozicki wrote: rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:18:35 -0500) ... besides improving that communication, the only missing thing is to be able to declare variables within maxima, and operate on them later. It means a running maxima session, instead of

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Guenter Milde said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:07:45 + (UTC)) One more thing to consider is using the lyxserver pipes. E.g. I wrote some experimental LyX output for swiginac (a Python wrapper of the ginac C++ library, http://swiginac.berlios.de/) using my LyXServer Python

better maxima integration, devel.

Hi, I'm thinking about the possibility of using lyx as my frontend to maxima. Texmacs doesn't suit me, because I used gvim+latex for years. Since I used latex for long time it would be logical to start using lyx in order to interact with maxima. I didn't ever use lyx before, because gvim was

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Janek Kozicki wrote: [...] I see now, that such integration would require at least a running maxima session in the background. I'm quite experienced with latex and C++. I am not sure if I decide to go this path, I want to investigate and judge the difficulty of writing patches that will

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Janek Kozicki wrote: [...] I see now, that such integration would require at least a running maxima session in the background. I'm quite experienced with latex and C++. I am not sure if I decide to go this path, I want to investigate and judge the

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 3/5/10, Janek Kozicki wrote: > I don't know what is the current state of lyx+maxima integration, and > I asked for ML archives in order to check this. > Some time ago there was a lengthy discussion about CAS support in LyX [1] (including Maxima), which also contained some

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:39 -0500) > On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > > And so on. Apparently, there are many limitations though. Maxima can do > > more, the communication between LyX and maxima is limited. You can't > > do matrix multiplication, for

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 09:20 AM, Janek Kozicki wrote: rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:39 -0500) On 03/05/2010 07:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: And so on. Apparently, there are many limitations though. Maxima can do more, the communication between LyX and maxima is

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with document, in order to not confuse people. But, OTOH, to use

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with document, in order to not confuse people. But, OTOH, to use

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:18:35 -0500) > Since I don't use maxima etc myself, I don't have a lot of thoughts > about this. What happens at present is that LaTeX that is entered into a > math inset gets translated into maxima's input format; LyX calls maxima > to do

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 03/05/2010 10:23 AM, Janek Kozicki wrote: Liviu Andronic said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:09:40 +) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org/msg77889.html thanks, by reading this I see that the maxima buffer must be seamlessly integrated with

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

On 2010-03-05, Janek Kozicki wrote: > rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:18:35 -0500) ... > besides improving that communication, the "only" missing thing is to > be able to declare variables within maxima, and operate on them > later. It means a running maxima session, instead

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

Guenter Milde said: (by the date of Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:07:45 + (UTC)) > One more thing to consider is using the lyxserver pipes. E.g. I wrote > some experimental "LyX output" for swiginac (a Python wrapper of the > ginac C++ library, http://swiginac.berlios.de/) using my LyXServer Python