Giorgio Zavarise wrote: > still on the theme "box around an equation", perhaps I found a bug in > Lyx (I am using Lyx 1.3.5 for MAC OSX 10.3.9), but I found also a > workaround. > Yesterday I proposed the following procedure > > HOW TO PUT A BOX AROUND AN EQUATION > 1) go to math mode with the command INSERT --> MATH --> DISPLAY FORMULA > 2) type \fbox (visible box) and then press carriage return or the > spacebar > 3) the text "\fbox" disappear and a framed box appears with the cursor > inside > but WARNING, YOU ARE IN TEXT MODE NOW!
this is one of the reason, why you should use \boxed from from amsmath. Laoding amsmath should be the default! Herbert