Herbert Voss wrote: > > from my point of view the better way is to handle the > ^ and _ as usual and as a special one in math! Than you > don't have this problem. I agree, but permit me to say why. People writing in languages that use the circumflex should not be punished. Extra key-strokes could be punishing, esp. writing long documents. There is the illusion that LyX users are math users. This probably bore some truth in the beginning, but in the broader scheme of document writers, they are certainly a small minority. The majority of software users do not subscribe to lists, if they find a program inconvienient, they quit using it. This is all the more true for non-english speakers. Garst (who almost never uses circumflexes of underscores).
