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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: LyX 1.6 line break in math formula
From:       "Paul A. Rubin" <rubin () msu ! edu>
Date:       2008-11-20 15:06:21
Message-ID: gg3ud9$vor$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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William Seager wrote:
> On November 19, 2008 11:44:46 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Amir Rachum wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I recently installed the new LyX 1.6 over windows XP and I can't seem to
>>> successfully linebreak inside math formulas. In the previous versions,
>>> this was done with C-Enter, but now I don't know how to do it. I tried
>>> looking in the new shortcuts menu in the prefrences window but I didn't
>>> find anything useful. I would appreciate your help.
>> C-Enter is working as usual for me (LyX 1.6.0-1, Win XP).
>>
>> In the shortcuts menu, try searching on Ctrl+Return.  In the CUA
>> binding, at least, it's bound to newline-insert newline.  Are you maybe
>> using a customized binding file?  You might also try opening the
>> minibuffer (Alt-x) and, with the cursor in a math inset, type
>> newline-insert newline in the minibuffer and hit return.  It should add
>> a new line to the math formula.
>>
>> /Paul
> 
> C-Enter works in ordinary text for me, but in a math formula it shifts the 
> whole formula down one line rather than breaking the line (I am using
> 1.6 on linux by the way). (As a workaround that might be of use, add
> this to your document preamble: "\newcommand{\bb}{\\}" and then
> use \bb to break your math formulas - this does seem to have some
> weird formatting side effects under some conditions however.)
> 

I don't reproduce this.  For me, C-Enter in a math inset breaks the line 
at the cursor location and shifts anything right of the cursor down.  So 
if the cursosr is at the end of the formula in a single-line math inset, 
or at the end of a row in a multiline formula, an empty line is inserted 
below the cursor but anything left of the cursor stays put.

/Paul

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