On Friday 09 November 2007 16:42:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 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.)

  LyX always calls lyx2lyx with the right argument, so in theory you should be 
able to plunge any more recent lyx2lyx into 1.4.x and have it working.

> 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.

  python 2.3.4

> 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.

  The latest version of 1.4.x (1.4.5.1) is able to read 1.5.x documents. That 
was the mainly purpose of its release. :-)

> /Paul

-- 
José Abílio

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