Re: \overset

[Raphael Clifford]

Herbert Voss wrote:

Raphael Clifford wrote:

\overset doesn't seem to work in lyx/prosper. Is there anything I can 
do?

Cheers,
Raphael
----------- error message from latex log 
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LaTeX Font Info:    Calculating math sizes for size <12.4> on input 
line 117.
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \overset


did you enabled amsmath (layout->document->packages)?


I added it to the preamble eventually and it now works. Thx!



                      l.119 denoted x$\overset
                      {\delta}=$y if and only if


looks abit curiuous, because overset has the syntax
\overset{a}{b}.
Herbert



I had this explained to me at one point on this list I think but I can't 
really remember. Something to with lyx interpreting brackets differently 
to latex.

Now I have another strange problem. If I take a bit of text and 
highlight it and press ctrl-m to put it into maths mode I can not then 
View->postscript the file. It works fine if I do Ctrl-m and then type 
the maths in.  The only visible sign of difference is that in the former 
case the text does not go into the nice italic blue that is does if I do 
ctrl-m and then type in the maths. It stays in black in the ordinary 
font (although with the maths symbols working).

Any ideas?
Cheers,
Raphael