On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:47:47AM -0400, Diab Jerius wrote: > 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.
Uncheck the "Preferences->Language->use babel" button, and make sure that the language of the document is equal to the "default language" in the preferences dialog.