Srinivas Nedunuri wrote:

> And what I said is that I did not ask for a text box. I don't really care
> if Lyx chooses to insert one if thats what it thinks it takes to get the
> job done so long as it doesn't choke and die over it. Its just a basic
> principle of good UI deisgn.

Yes.

>> >> You must have asked for it one way or the other, but you might not
>> >> know
>> > that
>> >> you did.
>> > I can assure you I didn't :-)
>>
>> I don't believe that unless you can prove it.
> I'm not sure if there's much more I can do short of telling you what I did
> and sending you my lyx file which i already did.

I can't tell from the file how you created it.

>> > If you're saying that I asked for X and got
>> > Y well that's another matter altogther. I understand these things
>> > happen occasionally even in the best software.
>>
>> Then please tell exactly what you did and what you got. If there is a bug
> in
>> LyX it should be fixed, but it can't be fixed if nobody knows about it.
> I already did. But here it is again - insert a display or eqnarray or an
> align or any enclosing math formula. Add an extra row. In the element
> where you want a split, increase the environment depth (C-Right),

Incrementing the environment depth in a math formula does nothing here.
Therefore I did not believe what you told. Neither does C-Right increment
the environment depth. Maybe you have selfmade bindings.

> insert a 
> multline. Use the M-m w i command to add extra rows to it. It all looks OK
> on the screen but when you try tdo dvi it, you get the error I mentioned.

Meanwhile I found the error: It is a known bug (has nothing to do with
environment depths) and will be fixed in LyX 1.4, see
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471



Georg

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