Andre Poenitz wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:51:45AM +0200, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
> > Hence come my bunch of questions:
> > -Is this normal or is it a bug?
>
> It is a bug which did not occur in 1.2 as 1.2 behaviour is broken slightly
> differently. There have been at least two patches to fix this on the list,
> so it should be fixed somehow in 1.2.2
>
> > -Are spaces, dashes, underscores forbidden in equation labels?
>
> They are not really forbidden, but they tend to screw up "external
> helpers". LyX got that status lately as you noticed...
>
> > and if so:
> >    -what can I use to separate my words?
>
> letters, number, dashes, commas, and colons should be fine.  _, ^, ~, ",
> $, #, spaces and other non-printable stuff should be avoided.
>
> > Ineedreadableandclearequationlabels :)
>
> I-need-readable-and-clear-equation-labels.
>
> Not optimal, but safe.

Thanks, I've switched all my 150 equations labels from underscores to dashes
yesterday. But this way, at least, the references where modified at the same
time, it was much less work than changing both.

>
>
> >    -shouldn't it be stated in the label dialog window?
> >    -shouldn't lyx be able to handle such characters, and only
> > replace/suppress them when exporting, if it is a LaTeX issue?
>
> This might produce clashing labels....
>
> Andre'
>

Thanks again,

Olivier



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