please see my posting "text over a symbol" and Uwe Stohr's reply. Basically you can get what you want with a \xleftarrow or \xrightarrow command.
cheers "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I am trying to reproduce the following and wondered whether it was possible in Lyx mathmode some text here x---------------------------------->y Where the arrow has a solid line and the text is written over the arrow rather than on a separate line although this wouldn't matter as long as the arrow was long enough for the text to be over it. Anyone got any ideas? Geoff
