Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Sorry, here's my question with a corrected title:
When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a
conversion script failure: "filename.lyz is from an earlier version of
lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it" I'm running LyX 1.4.1.
Must I upgrade to 1.5?
Bruce
I suspect the error message is misworded. Most of the examples posted
recently on the list have been in the current file format (current =
used by 1.5.1 and 1.5.2; this is obviously a moving target). So the
issue would be that the file was written in a later format, not an
earlier one.
The lyx2lyx script has an optional argument indicating the format to
which to convert. (It also has an optional from argument, though I
don't see in the code where that is used. But then I don't really speak
Python.) It might be that if you acquire just the lyx2lyx directory
from 1.5.x, and have a reasonably up-to-date version of Python
installed, you could convert recent files backward to 1.4.x. It looks
to me as though the script I have in 1.5.2 is designed for backward as
well as forward conversions. But the script that shipped with 1.4.x
would not be able to convert to/from 1.5.x formats.
/Paul
