Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Because this special topic is now > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5128 > > \url must not be used in footnotes, section headings, and indexes. I added > to this bug report a proposal to fix this.
No, I think URLs should be possible in such environments, and I use \url in footnotes all the time. In fact, this is crucial in some texts. As the old bug report shows, there are workarounds. Jürgen