On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:21:52AM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Attached find a lyx2lyx for patch 1820. It's not perfect, though --- it 
> actually corrupts some files which shouldn't be changed at all; if 
> anyone wants to try and fix that, be my guest, I've just spent the past 
> six hours on this and I'm not sure that it's doable.
> 
> Also, this has only convinced me even more that it's wrong to apply a 
> lyx2lyx fix for this patch: this is a bug fix, there were previously 
> .lyx files which were ok, but which lyx was generating incorrect latex 
> for, and patch 1820 fixes that. If there are lyx documents out there 
> which patch 1820 affects, it can only do them good. All this lyx2lyx 
> patch does is to explicitly set the language to the wrong values in all 
> kinds of situations.

FWIW, I agree with you. LyX was generating wrong LaTeX code in those
cases and this should be considered as bug fix. IMO, it is laughable
requiring a lyx2lyx patch in order to perpetuate the bug.

-- 
Enrico

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