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 frequent: you need to work in a field
> where formal calculus is efficient.
Well, I guess it depends completely what you're doing. If I'm a student to
who a professor assigns, say 10 smallish problems/exercises, it's better
to just start writing the solutions to each of those in LyX, and
manipulating the formulas from inside LyX -- if needed -- than to jump
between Maxima and LyX and even then copying formulas by hand. Errors
happen easily too.
But if you're writing -- let's say a thesis -- the situation is probably
quite different. You have one big problem that you might want to solve
completely in you mathematics program and then only export the required
formulas to LyX.
