On 2016-10-22, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Le 22/10/2016 à 16:58, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : >> > > I still wonder why we should keep this preference. >> > >> > Good observation. I think for backward compatibility. Otherwise we >> > don't know what was the old default. Suppose that a user unchecked >> > that preference, meaning that no fontenc is loaded. If we miss this >> > info, we should convert an old [Default] to T1 (the old default), >> > thus screwing up old documents. The same if instead that was changed >> > to OT1, for example. >> I think that at some point we should remove it and describe what to do in >> Release Notes for existing documents. What I do not know is whether a few >> people will face much work to get their documents in good shape again. > If you ask me, I think that 99.99% of users didn't change that default. > If someone was needing a different encoding, it is much more likely that > he stumbled upon the custom setting in the document settings dialog > rather than that setting in the preferences. I'd be cautious with such estimates. After all, the document specific setting is just 8 years old and the 8 years before changing the LyX wide default was the only option. Users may have set it and never thougth about it for ages. OTOH, even a 2012 an answer at stackexcange did only know about the global setting. (I added a comment about the per-document setting when stumbling across it yesterday.) Günter
