String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jan 2 18:51:35 UTC 2024


On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Neither displays correctly for me. The issue is that you are inserting the
> arrow as LaTeX without invoking math mode (at least in mwe2; in mwe it's
> not even LaTeX). So the compiler guesses where to begin and end math mode,
> and it does not guess correctly. (Quoth the LaTeX log: "I've inserted a
> begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
>
> you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.")
>
> The simple fix is to insert the arrows using math model (ctrl-M), as in the 
> attached version of your second example.

Paul,

I saw that but missed the point that I needed to use math mode rather than
plain LaTeX/ERT.

Thanks,

Rich


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