Brian Williams wrote: > By the way, the user guide says this in section 5.2: "If you decide after > the fact to place parentheses (or other math structure, like a square > root, or other decoration) around some math structure, you can do that by > highlighting (selecting) the structure that is to go inside the > parentheses...Then, choose the appropriate brackets for left and right, > and click on Apply. The parentheses will be drawn around the selected > structure." > > This does not appear to be true for equation environments or arrays for > that matter.
I think that the user guide is describing a counter intuitive UI. Since that section was written the math editor has been re-written from scratch. It's more than likely that the two are out of sync (and that the mathed way is better than the description). Please file a report on bugzilla.lyx.org. -- Angus