On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:18:35AM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote: > Joost Verburg wrote: > > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> Quite frankly, as there is no format change and that this needs some more > >> testing, I'd prefer that you wait for 1.5.1 which will hopefully happen > >> very soon. Just look at my recent brown paper bag which was supposed to be > >> very very safe. > > According to the description of the patch, this is a format change. > > Joost > > I'm not sure. I'm trying to argue that this is not really a format change, > because: > > (1) all this patch is attempting, is to make sure that the latex output > matches the GUI / internal LyX representation of the document; > (2) I'm not changing anything in the GUI / internal representation of the > document. > > The problem is, the latex output currently *doesn't* match the GUI / > internal representation, so this implies that the latex output *will* > change... So does this constitute a format change or not? (see also > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/89855, which I didn't get > any responses to...).
If the LaTeX output is different, I would say it is a format change... the problem is then to produce a lyx2lyx entry that would modify an old .lyx file upon conversion to the new format so, that it nevertheless produces the old LaTeX output... is this realistically doable? If this is not easy, perhaps we should perhaps just introduce a placeholder format change anyway and fill it in as best we can. What is the worst case if this does not work properly? - Martin
