On Tuesday 27 August 2002 10:32, Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> I would reduce the actual _users_ of 1.3 by a factor of two  if I did that
> I suppose...

  Sorry but I don't understand why. All that I am saying is if you have a 1.2 
document then save it with 1.2.x, if you have a 1.3cvs then save it with 
1.3cvs, why would this halve the 1.3 users?

> >   Take as an example the \end_deeper problem that we had last week, how
> > would you be able to revert to the old format?
>
> It tried to eat just one doc of mine with only a few enumerations. I fixed
> this manually.

  That was my point. ;-)

> >   My concern with lyx2lyx is the end user, so I don't care about cvs
> > version.
>
> End users have the same problem. 1.2 and 1.1.5 do not works together very
> well.

  Believe me, the convertion would the same size, or greater, than the one we 
have now.

> >   Then the read-only flag is the solution. But I repeat, I don't
> > understand why someone that is using an editing a lyx document with some
> > version doesn't expect lyx to save with the respective file format...
>
> Because I cannot send version 220 .lyx files to people using 1.1.5.
> Currently we have the Word 2/95/2000 mess. lyx2lyx is fixing this nicely

  Then we should design the file format to help the process, not as we have it 
now.

> (Thanks again btw), but only in one direction....
>
> Andre'

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Jos� Ab�lio

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