On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:47:47AM -0400, Diab Jerius wrote:
> I'm using the SPIE class file (v 2.8) of 16 July 2003. It's redefining
> the reference citation macros in such a way that they collide with
> babel, causing failed runs. The error messages vary, depending upon
> the age of the TeX distribution. On Debian testing/unstable, I get:
>
> ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
> <to be read again>
> \mathsurround
> l.13 ...s presented in \cite{2000SPIE.4012...17J}.
>
>
> This is not a LyX bug. In the short run however, (i.e. paper was due
> two months ago, must have it in by next Tuesday) I need to turn babel
> off in the LyX output.
>
> Is there any way of doing this? There's no language=none option that
> I could find.
Uncheck the "Preferences->Language->use babel" button, and make sure that
the language of the document is equal to the "default language" in the
preferences dialog.