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. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] College Station, TX 77843-4237
