On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:56:55PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 09:29 schrieb H. Peter Gumm: > > [xymatrix problems] > > > Do you have any solutions to this ? At this stage, a > > workaround would also be very welcome to me. > > Dear H. Peter Gumm, > xy-pic support in LyX is not complete. LyX stores equations in TeX syntax > in .lyx files. The parser that is used to read these TeX snippets can not > cope well with the syntax of xy-pic, since it is a bit unusual. This is > not intended as an excuse, but only as an explanation. > Unfortunately André removed xymatrix support in 1.4cvs (I don't know why).
Because it was broken, incomplete, and far from getting finished. Moreover, it was partially obsoleted by instant preview. Andre'