> > > How do one obtain nth roots in LyX, e.g. a cubic root sign?
> >
> > As Jean-Marc already answered some 20 days ago to the same question just
> > type
> > M-x math-insert root
>
> Thanks, but don't you mean M-x math-insert sqrt[n] (to obtain the nth root)?
No. I definitely mean what I said. If you "math-insert" root you get the
root-symbol with two boxes. One for the "n" resp. "3" (as for the n-th resp.
cubic root) and one for the stuff under the root.
> By the way. Is anyone else having trouble with xdvi? It is not showing that
> I have an nth root, it just shows a normal square root. It also shows an
> ordinary rightarrow where I have a mapsto-arrow. Is this a bug in my
> version?
In my version it's the same. But in ghostview everything looks fine.
Ingo
