Request for beta users

2017-08-08 Thread Tom McLaughlin
Dear LyX users, Apologies in advance if this is considered spam. I've used LyX happily for years, but always wished there was an easier way to collaborate with other people on a document. To make this easier, I've been working on a web-based math editor that tries to reproduce the LyX experience

Re: lyx to lyx on the Mac command line

2017-08-08 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 08.08.2017 um 17:07 schrieb José Abílio Matos : > > On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 15.50.28 WEST Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way of changing a lyx file from an older version to the >> current one on the command line, like opening the file, making a >>

Re: lyx to lyx on the Mac command line

2017-08-08 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 17.24.30 WEST Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > José > > thank you, but it lyx2lyx does not do what I need. > > lyx2lyx file.lyx -o file.lyx > > clobbers file.lyx > > Something like > > PID=$$ > cp file.lyx file.$PID.lyx > lyx2lyx file.$PID.lyx

Re: lyx to lyx on the Mac command line

2017-08-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
José thank you, but it lyx2lyx does not do what I need. lyx2lyx file.lyx -o file.lyx clobbers file.lyx Something like PID=$$ cp file.lyx file.$PID.lyx lyx2lyx file.$PID.lyx file.lyx doesn't fit on the command line so needs refinement as a bash script to take

Re: lyx to lyx on the Mac command line

2017-08-08 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 15.50.28 WEST Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way of changing a lyx file from an older version to the > current one on the command line, like opening the file, making a > modification to trigger the saving allowed and saving it under the old > filename? >

lyx to lyx on the Mac command line

2017-08-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Hi, is there a way of changing a lyx file from an older version to the current one on the command line, like opening the file, making a modification to trigger the saving allowed and saving it under the old filename? find . -name '*lyx' -exec whatever {} \; I wouldn't mind even a Apple

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-08-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
And there you have it, all scripts (and workflows) broken. Every single one. el On 02/08/2017 22:45, Roberto wrote: > On 02/08/2017 01:20, Steve Litt wrote: >> breaking everybody's scripts and work flow [...] > at worse it requires a one line change in your script to say where the > .lyx file

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-08-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Yada, yada, yada, whatever... el On 02/08/2017 22:42, Roberto wrote: > On 02/08/2017 13:10, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> one paragraph > Ricardo has expressed a great truth in just one sentence: > "it seems that on this thread is slowly surfacing one of the worst > sins of open source