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-LyX offers exchange between mathematical expressions written in LyX's math
- editor and external applications or user defined scripts.
- Currently offered backends are Octave, Maxima, Maple and Mathematica.
- Note, however, that the set of supported mathematical constructs is limited
- only to very simple cases.
+LyX offers the exchange between mathematical expressions written in LyX's
+ math editor and external applications or user defined scripts.
+ Currently supported applications are
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+Mathematica
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+Maxima
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+Octave
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+ Note that the set of supported mathematical constructs is limited only
+ to very simple cases.
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-Start with entering math mode, write some expression, go to the
+Write some expression in a formula, go to the
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Edit\SpecialChar \menuseparator
Math\SpecialChar \menuseparator
Use Computer Algebra System
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menu and choose the application you have installed on the computer.
- After the execution the result of computation should show on the right
- side of the expression together with
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+ After that the result of computation should show on the right side of the
+ expression together with the
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operator.
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-Here are few simple examples (results given by Maxima) to give an idea of
- computations which can be requested:
+Here are few simple examples (with results from
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+Maxima
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+) to show what kind of computations can be performed:
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-Tip for the Key Binding
+Keyboard shortcut
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-Currently there is no keyboard binding for calling the algebra applications.
- One can easily bind a shortcut to
+Currently there is no keyboard shortcut for calling the algebra applications.
+ One can easily bind a shortcut to the
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math-extern
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- LyX function (see
+ LyX function (see the
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LyX Functions
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manual).
- One could bind also currently unused Enter key inside math editor, but
- for this more complicated binding is needed, the particular Maxima case
- would look like:
+ One could e.
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+bind the
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+Return
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+ To bind it to
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+Maxima
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+ one would use this shortcut definition command:
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