Thanks for everybody's input here.
Sounds like I'll have to take a gander at the source to see what the problem
is.
Lyx is 1.1.5fix2
\AA{} does not work
{\AA} does not work
only
textrm{\AA} seems to have any function at all
let me know if you all come up with anything in the meantime
brad
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 12:48 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > okay so that worked very nicely for a minute - then i saved the file and
> > tried to re-open it.
> >
> > Unfortunately lyx comes up with
>
> Which version of LyX is that?
>
> Well, it is actually likely that any version of LyX show this behaviour,
> the mathed parser is not correct in every case.
>
> > If I fix this in a text editor to
> >
> > \begin_inset Formula \( \Delta vol=\frac{4\pi }{3}abs\left(
> > r_{pH2}-r_{pH7}\right) ^{3}=\frac{4\pi }{3}\left( 17.87\textrm{ \AA
> > }-16.03\textrm{ \AA }\right) ^{3}=\frac{4\pi }{3}*6.263\textrm{ \AA
> > }^{3}=26.24\textrm{ \AA }^{3} \)
> > \end_inset
>
> Try \AA{}. Maybe it helps.
>
> > it just reverts back with the next save (and no angstrom symbols are
> > displayed in dvi viewer (just spaces)
> >
> > To re-interate
> > I can create a formula containging angstrom symbols which look fine in a
> > dvi viewer until i close and re-open the file.
> > After this happens I get the error mentioned above
> > In trying to correct the error i lose the angstrom symbols and something
> > funny happens when lyx saves the \textrm sections
> >
> > does \AA not count as an argument?
>
> It certainly should.
>
> Andre'
