Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > Maybe someone with right permission could change the topic to > "LyX should have an option of where to export". or somebody with the right permissions could give long standing contributors bigger rights in bugzilla. pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-11, Richard Heck wrote: > M-L wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0400 >> rgheck wrote: >>> M-L wrote: rgheck wrote: > As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But > you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. >> But maybe not many are so stu

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Heck
M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0400 rgheck wrote: M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I w

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
, It would appear that on Mar 9, Guenter Milde did say: > On 2009-03-09, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I > > recently wrote a couple of documents. Then I had occasion > > to modify one of the .lyx files on a different linux box. > > But the

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Guenter Milde schrieb: >> As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers >> and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser >> (save-file dialogue) with export. > I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" ins

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0400 rgheck wrote: > M-L wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 > > rgheck wrote: > > > >> As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But > >> you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. > >> > >> > > Thank you for that. I will

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" instead to "name.lyx15" Y

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" instead to "name.lyx15" regards Uwe

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, M-L wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 > rgheck wrote: >> As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you >> have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. > Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. > It seems that was the

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. It seems that was the problem and I did

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not > > use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose > > semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). > > > > >

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). Let me just clarify what Jurgen means by this by giving an example. In

RE: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: > >[...] > >Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on >my Linux Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX >1.5.5 I've heard this before. I think this was raised as a possible cause for bug http://bugzil

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: > > File - then to Export - then to LyX 1.5.x > > With each of them. > > Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on my Linux > Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX 1.5.5 > > It wouldn't op

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:21:45 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > M-L wrote: > > I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and > > deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and > > replaced them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't > > realise it

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and > deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced > them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't realise it was this > simple. Anything that works is a nice workaround. Note that th

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Since I often have this problem, I've found a workaround ( not a nice >--} one, but it works when the formats aren't too different). >--} I simply change the number of the LyX format. >--} Open y

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Since I often have this problem, I've found a workaround ( not a nice one, but it works when the formats aren't too different). I simply change the number of the LyX format. Open your file with a text editor and see the second line e. g. \lyxformat 276 Change this number to match the number used

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I've tried that but it doesn't work, or it doesn't work from LyX 1.6.1 > windows converting to LyX 1.5.x to be read by LyX 1.5.5 debian Lenny. What exactly doesn't work? Jürgen

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:35:40 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Is there a way to tell lyx 1.6.1 to save in an older lyx format? > > File>Export>LyX 1.5.x > > Jürgen I've tried that but it doesn't work, or it doesn't work from LyX 1.6.1 windows converting to LyX

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Is there a way to tell lyx 1.6.1 to save in an older lyx format? File>Export>LyX 1.5.x Jürgen

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I recently wrote a > couple of documents. Then I had occasion to modify one of the .lyx files > on a different linux box. But the available version of lyx was only > 1.5.6 and when I tried to open th