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'

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