The attached patch fixes bug 4424 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4424
André, what was the reason that mbox instead of \textrm was used? regards Uwe
Index: InsetMathNest.cpp =================================================================== --- InsetMathNest.cpp (revision 22152) +++ InsetMathNest.cpp (working copy) @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ docstring const save_selection = grabAndEraseSelection(cur); selClearOrDel(cur); //cur.plainInsert(MathAtom(new InsetMathMBox(cur.bv()))); - cur.plainInsert(MathAtom(new InsetMathBox(from_ascii("mbox")))); + cur.plainInsert(MathAtom(new InsetMathBox(from_ascii("textrm")))); cur.posBackward(); cur.pushBackward(*cur.nextInset()); cur.niceInsert(save_selection);