Thanks for the answer. Any comments from the developers?
>> "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it >> and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular >> text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the >> footnote." > > I think this was possible in earlier versions of LyX. However, this ability > has been removed. First, I tryed it with the Qt version, now, I have checked with the xforms also. It is definitely not working. >> Is this a bug or a feature? > > It's a removed feature (and a documentation bug). AFAIR it has been removed, > because it was badly implemented. > >> Will it change? > > Who knows? I think it would be a worthwile anhancement (also for comments, > charstyles etc.), but first someone needs to find time and interest to sit > down and implement it. I hope it will come back, for me it is a good function. > However, I think you should file an enhancement report on bugzilla. I do it. Alex