Bo Peng wrote: > I get his first complain against lyx today: "The lyx file is corrupted > after I edit your formula, I hope that you can open this file...". The > real problem, as I later found out, is that he accidentally inserted a > math symbol \times in a \textrm box, a problem I had asked for a > thorough solution many times in this list.
This is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527 [snip complaints] This is all true. The big problem is that the proper solution (i. e. make text in mathed behave like normal text) requires non-trivial code and file format changes. Therefore this bug will not be fixed for 1.4.0. Georg