On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:17:20PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote: > I am surprised that Lyx can generate invalid latex output. I would have > thought that it could make sure the user did not create invalid > documents. For example, if I am in a section header and I insert a table > then this makes no sense so why isn't the insert table menu item greyed out? > > The errors that come back from latex can be confusing for users so it > would be really helpful if Lyx could prevent this in the first place and > let the user know in a high level way why an operation can't be performed. > > Wouldn't this be possible?
If it were safe and simple it woud have been done a long time ago. Andre'