I'm using the SPIE class file (v 2.8) of 16 July 2003. It's redefining the reference citation macros in such a way that they collide with babel, causing failed runs. The error messages vary, depending upon the age of the TeX distribution. On Debian testing/unstable, I get:
! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \mathsurround l.13 ...s presented in \cite{2000SPIE.4012...17J}. This is not a LyX bug. In the short run however, (i.e. paper was due two months ago, must have it in by next Tuesday) I need to turn babel off in the LyX output. Is there any way of doing this? There's no language=none option that I could find. I'm using 1.3.2, xforms. Thanks! Diab -- Diab Jerius Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St, MS 70, Cambridge MA 02138 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox: 617 496 7575 fax: 617 495 7356