On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Denby, PM (Phillip) wrote: > I'm working my way through the Lyx tutorial (and user guide.) With regards > to footnotes... i read you can highlight normal text and then select the > insertfootnoe button to convert it to a foot note.... but it doesn't!! it > just inserts a blank foot note where the cursor is. Similaly I cannot > convert foot note text back to normal text int he way sugested as the insert > foot note button is then dissabled. > Whats wrong! >
What's wrong is that you're using lyx 1.2.0 or later. It works, as documented, in lyx 1.1.6fix4, but not in 1.2.0. (Developers, see why I stick with 1.1? ;-) -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia Tel: +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: +61 3 9905 3637
