On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:13:14AM +0100, Jos� Ab�lio Oliveira Matos wrote: > Why should this be different from the actual behaviour? > I agree that this is probably the best thing to do here, although I am not > sure. My point is: with previous versions if lyx read an old version and you > saved it it would update to the new file format, why should it be different > now? Don't you trust lyx2lyx code? ;-)
The problem is if I co-operate with people that do not use current CVS head for daily work, their docs are _silently_ converted to 220 if I just change a single char. As long as lyx2lyx does not works equally well for downgrading, this can cause severe problems. > Does it makes sense from the user point of view to ask this? Why ask > and not warn? Why should it be different now? Ask, because the user might not want the coversion. One could also offer a "read-only" conversion. Or something like that. Actually, the best solution would be to have a possibility to downgrade .lyx docs as well. I understand that newer features are not usable that way, but this would enable co-operation of 1.2 and 1.1.6 at least at the level were 1.2 is able to _edit_ 1.1.6 files without "destroying" them. > Notice that you only get the document modified if you save it, and then > you still have the old copy around (name.lyx~). Better not to touch the original... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
