On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:33:49AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:30:45PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:03:09AM +1000, James Brusey wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to format a formula of the form:
> > > >
> > > > { y if y > 0
> > > > x = {
> > > > { z + y otherwise
> > > >
> > > > (see bottom p. 47 of Leslie Lamport's Latex book (2nd ed).)
> > > >
> > > > Although I can manage to insert an \mbox in math mode, I can't
> > > > put any (normal) spaces in it. I have tried other sorts of spaces,
> > > > however the only ones that I managed to get to work where \, and these
> > > > were too large.
> > >
> > > Don't use \mbox for the 'if y>0' part.
> > > Instead, press Ctrl+m, type 'if' and then space, press Ctrl+m again,
> > > and type y>0.
> >
> > Not sure which bind you are using, but I tried both xemacs.bind and cua.bind
> > and in both, when I press ctrl-m, the cursor jumps to just before the
> > formula and the words "Mark set" appears in the status bar. I'm using
> > LyX1.1.6fix1.
>
> it's alt-m-m for toggeling math/text-mode
>
> Herbert
>
Thanks Herbert. That's *exactly* what I needed.
James
