On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:42:13PM +0200, Lionel Portmann wrote:
> In a figure (float) caption, I want to put within the text some math
> symboles. If I use for instance an overrightarrow over even a single
> letter, I get an error from Latex. With Lyx 1.04, this error was
> ignored, (no grey box) and the DVI came out all right (fine for me).
> With Lyx 1.15 the error is caught, and I get a grey box in my Lyx
> document, and no DVI (bad for me). Actually, Lyx 1.04 and 1.15 write the
> same Latex code, which triggers the same error.
>
> These errors come when I use overrightarrow, overbrace, etc., but not
> with overline or tilde!
You can use the attached patch that fixes this problem.
If you can not use the patch, a workaround for the problem is to type
\protect before the overrightarrow.
patch.gz
