> In this case it might be the \mathrm in your equation which then
> includes \mathbf (maybe you pressed C-m by mistake within the equation?).
Thanks Amir.. after reading your post, I looked more carefully and there was a
C-m in there for no reason..
> I should add however, that when I deleted by hand the \mathrm and its
> appropriate {} (second attached file), in the exported LaTeX file,
> running Latex on it gave me no problems but importing it back did give
> me problems
that is weird... probably something to do with the latex->lyx script?
nirmal