Dear Herbert,
thank you for your response.
Herbert Voss writes:
> Nabil Hathout wrote:
>
> > when I insert a postscript figure in a document, lyx 1.2.0 says that it cannot
> > convert ps to eps. This makes many of my lyx 1.1.6 documents not usable with
> > lyx 1.2.0.
>
> hm, this shouldn't be, because we do not need something
>
> to convert. will have a look.
It seems that the problem is related to the fact that I do not use a temporary
directory.
>
> > a second compatibility problem comes from the fact that lyx 1.2.0 inserts the
> > \usepackage{babel} after the preamble. So I have to add to all my lyx 1.1.6
> > French documents the previous command in the preamble in order to set some
> > frenchb variables.
>
>
> write \usepackage{babel} as first line in your preamble.
That's what I do.
--Nabil
