Hi,
I have registered for a class of the Math for Economists and I am for
the first time discovering a real beauty of LyX when his dealing with
math. And I have to confess, a beauty there is!
However, when working on my assignements, I usually had in other
gnome-terminal window started octave for calculating determinants etc.
While working on these assignements, I begun to dream about an
improvement of LyX which would allow me to work with Octave exactly in
LyX (something what could be done with much more primitive GNU Calc in
Emacs). For example, let's have following in MathEd:
[ 1 2 3 ]
A = | 2 3 1 |
[ 3 1 2 ]
|A| =
Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would insert -18
(determinant of the matrix A). I believe that such functionality would
be something further moving LyX from "just better editor" to real
killer-application.
OK, I am sure, that it is so complicated, that a huge rewrite of Mathed
would be required. Therefore, let's keep it as a dream for some future
situation, when LyX will be so polished, that no programmer would
anything to do :-). And of course, that I see some pitfalls (I do not
want octave being started just for a name of variable being inserted --
e.g., when just inline equation - Ctrl-M - is edited).
However, I would have some much less complicated proposal. Would it be
possible to persuade Mathed, that it would insert in Clipboard (Ctrl-C)
matrix, equation, formula, etc. so that it may be easily inserted into
octave? I mean, that for above shown matrix, a content of clipboard
(when whole first line is selected) would be a=[1,2,3;2,3,1;3,1,2]?
Thanks anyway -- I shock all my classmates (economists usually work with
M$ trash) with super beautiful equatioins in Computer Modern fonts (and
advertising LyX by that)!
Have a nice day
Matej
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Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Do you suppose, that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell
and killed them, were worse culprits than all the men who live in
Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but UNLESS you repent you will likewise
perish.
-- Luke 13,4-5
