On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:09:56AM +0100, Davide Cavallari wrote:
> The fact is that I want to use the command:
>
> \begin{equation*}
> |x|=
> \begin{cases} x & \text{if $x>0$,}
> -x &\text{if $x\le 0$.}
> \end{cases}
> \end{equation*}
>
> What I have to do to make it work in lyx?
\text{} does not work even in 1.2, so the closest thing you might get is
\begin{equation*}
|x|=
\begin{cases} x & \mathrm{if} x>0 \mathrm{,}
-x &\mathrm{if} x\le 0.}
\end{cases}
\end{equation*}
You can type this in the main LyX text, highlight it and press C-m to
convert it to math.
Andre'
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