Oops, I forgot to attach the example. Here it is.
#This file was created by <ingo> Thu Sep 16 16:54:01 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass article \language german \inputencoding latin1 \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize 12 \spacing single \papersize a4paper \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language polish \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard In multiline equations sub-/superscript only works for integrals and not for sums. Example: \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \begin{eqnarray*} & \sum ^{n}_{i=1}i & \\ & \sum\nolimits _{i=1}^{n}i & \\ & \int\limits ^{\infty }_{x=0}e^{-x^{2}} & \\ & \int ^{\infty }_{x=0}e^{-x^{2}} & \end{eqnarray*} \end_inset \the_end