I updated to the svn trunk version this morning and I can verify that any file modified by the new version, indeed, cannot be reverted be read by v1.6 or earlier. When I was playing with the svn version back in August, this would have been an enormous problem since it seemed extremely unstable.
It appears that the developers have since fixed a number of those problems, though. I've been using it all morning to work on the text for my book without a single hiccup. (After I figured out that I needed to specify a different -sysdir and -userdir or it would completely crap over my previous installation). I also fumbled around looking for the xetex settings, but once I got it figured out (it's under Document->Settings->Output for anyone else who might find themselves confused), I've been a very happy camper. The one feature that I would like to try out and can't seem to enable is the new spell checker. Squiggly red underlines is something that I've wanted to see in LyX for a very long time. Cheers, Rob On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 13:56 -0600, stefano franchi wrote: > Richard, > > I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx > converter that deals with it) is still unable to revert back to previous > versions' file formats. Last time I tried trunk (2 or 3 months ago, I > believe), I found out that every file it touched could no longer be opened > by older versions. Although I would have liked to use the newer features, I > did not feel brave enough to go down a path that looked very much like a > one-way street. Other users may be braver than me, though. > > > S. > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: > > > On 11/20/2009 10:18 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > > > >> Hi Günter, > >> > >> Thank you for the thoughts and the links. > >> > >> "Unfortunately, you still did not write, how you process your document > >> with XeTeX. (Export with File>Export>LaTeX (XeTeX) or something alike?)" > >> > >> > >> > > If someone hasn't already said so, I should add that the next major release > > of LyX will have native support for XeTeX. This has been in trunk, actually, > > for quite a while. So those of you who use and really need XeTeX should > > think about compiling trunk and trying it out. We'd obviously appreciate the > > feedback. Be warned, of course, that trunk can sometimes be a bit unstable, > > so save often (or set autosave to a short value), but I don't think there > > are any major known issues at the moment. > > > > Richard > > > > > >
