Enrico Forestieri schrieb: >> And the >> fact that LyX will eat the other braces if you read the file, and then the >> inner ones if you save it and read it again. > > Nope. That will only occur if the size of the nucleus is 1, but then it > doesn't matter as latex macros don't need braces around a single token > argument.
only when the token is a macro or a non alpha character. \vec1 versus \veca Herbert