On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:40:41AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> > I've found a possible bug, or at least something that produces errors when
> > I try to do view dvi. It seems related to having a math in a list label
> > with a ']' in the label (putting {} around the math expressions takes
> > care of the problem).
>
> That's another incarnation of the infamous "strange things in labels"
> problem. In this case the ] in the label is taken as "end of label"
> which leaves the math $'s unbalanced.
>
> I am not sure whether this could be seen as a bug, in any case "fixing" it
> is not easy (if possible at all). Maybe we should just document it and give
> the workaround (put everything in {...}).
>
> When I think about it: Maybe we could add the extra {...} in any case when
> exporting the list. But that's a hach a well which will fire back once we
> want to read that stuff...
>
> Andre'
>
I figured it was something like that..
About documenting it, perhaps it could go to where the list
environment is described?
Would it somehow be possible for LyX to recognize this case (i.e. a ']' in
the label) and produce a warning if it isn't within '{}'? That'd at least
give the user a clue about how to work around it.
/C
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