On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:01:57PM -0600, Fernando Pérez wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, the Scietific Word program under Windows in fact does have that kind
> of functionality. SWord (no relation to Microsoft) is in many ways similar
> to lyx (a latex frontend), though I personally prefer Lyx. But SWord has
> very nice integration with the Maple kernel: you can stay in Sword and have
> maple compute things and graph them for you, and the final document will be
> a regular latex document. It's actually quite impressive.
>
> This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
> be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
> rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
> or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
> two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
> So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
> Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
> developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
> hold your breath, you might turn purple...
I am surely not holding the breath (actually, maybe that clipboard thing
could be done somehow more easily), but I thought that mentioning it on
the list won't hurt anybody. :-)
Thanks for reply
Matej
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