With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents with old LaTeX2e installations: As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade regularly (for example, trying to build a format from a latex.ltx file more than a year old gives a warning message) I think LyX should not cater to old LaTeX distributions. What it should do, however, is issue an error message during the configuration process and say "your LaTeX is out of date". Rather than testing for particular commands it uses, I think LyX should effectively require a particular date of LaTeX. If LyX is released on dd/mm/yyyy, then it should be reasonable to require LaTeX of dd/mm/yyyy-2. Of course, this will probably change when LaTeX3 is released, and of course LyX should not *try* to use new commands just for the sake of it. But it does seem reasonable that at the moment, while LaTeX is in a state of development, it should be possible to require a fairly recent version (if LyX were built directly on TeX the situation would be utterly different). -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
