On 11/20/09, rgheck <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 11/20/2009 02:56 PM, 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.
>
>Yes, the file format for 1.7 has evolved---partly to support XeTeX. But
>you can always export to 1.6 format---as I guess got discussed in
>detail. As Guenter suggested, the even better thing to do is just copy
>the entire lyx2lyx directory from svn over to your 1.6 directories. Then
>you don't have to worry about it.
>
>Richard
>

Thanks for all the suggestions. It looks like it's time to give lyx-devel 
another try.

Cheers,

S.



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