opening and closes footnotes can cause core dumps for me (userguide.lyx), or infinite loops if you open a footnote that is partially below the bottom of the workarea just a couple more major inset/tabular problems that need fixing ! we have lots of them right now. A pre release looks quite some way off yet. john -- "They didn't know what the symbols and paradoxes meant. Instead of following the finger that points to the moon, they sat down and worshipped the finger itself. Instead of following the map, they thought it was the territory and tried to live in it. Instead of reading the menu they tried to eat it. Dig ?" - Miss Portinari