On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents
> with old LaTeX2e installations:
>
> As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade
> regularly (for example, trying to build a format from a latex.ltx file
> more than a year old gives a warning message) I think LyX should not cater
> to old LaTeX distributions. What it should do, however, is issue an error
> message during the configuration process and say "your LaTeX is out of
> date".
Well, is not teTeX 0.4 the *latest* stable version is 2 yrs old. 0.9 is
still beta.
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
