LyX 2.4.0 & Jupyter Notebooks

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Wed Apr 10 09:05:06 UTC 2024


On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 11:37:48AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 4/9/24 08:48, Bernt Lie wrote:
> >Is there a way to import Jupyter Notebooks into LyX 2.4.0 (when v. 2.4.0 is released)?
> >
> >I'm particularly interested in the possibility to...
> >
> >* link the notebooks into LyX so that I always get the latest version/computations in the notebook, i.e., preferably not a static import
> >
> >* inclusion of mark-up text with headlines, math, etc.
> >
> >* inclusion of input and output cells, with figures, etc.
> >
> >* linked-in notebooks would be multipage. Perhaps it should be possible to embed the notebooks in some theorem-like environment.
> >
> >OK -- don't know if this is possible, but it would go a long way towards getting a literal programming environment.
> 
> The most plausible way to do this would be to use an external inset. That's
> the way that Lilypond files (music) are included, for example. Such insets
> are user definable. Basically, you tell LyX how to convert the file to
> something LaTeX can process. This is discussed in section 7.1 of the
> Embedded Objects manual. You can use the existing xtemplate files as a
> starting point, too.

You might also want to check how knitr integrates into lyx (basically embedding
R code into lyx).

Pavel


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