On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:13:44PM GMT, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 4/7/24 12:46, José Matos wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 11:31 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > Fair enough. That was what I was afraid of (and expected). > > > > > > Scott > > A possible mid-term solution, to your use case, is to set the output > > format of the latest stable version. > > > > This would mean that any document is always imported to the latest > > development release and when saved it is done in the stable file > > format. > > > > On the other hand what this would mean to stress the > > conversion/reversion round trip. > > > > This could be implemented as some kind of option to set, by default, > > the save file format version or even better, because in this case this > > is what it intended, the target version. > > > > In the preferences file this could go as: > > > > \save_file_format 2.4 > > > > If this option is not set then everything works as usual. > > If it is set then, when the file is saved, the file is reverted to that > > file format. > > > > I hope that this idea helps, :-) > > That is a good idea. It's too late for 2.4.x, but if it were added early to > master, then it would be usable for Scott's purpose. > > The roundtrip would of course only matter if one made use of features that > required a format change.
Thanks, that is a good idea, but I would not want to use that setting for most of my documents. I find that doing repeated lyx2lyx does not create a smooth workflow. Scott
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