Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I could be wrong, but I don't see the benefit of doing the oldLyX to | newLyX transformation using lyx2lyx. Why not just read the oldLyX file | using the existing routines and then write the new one using the new | routines? True, you have to keep the old routines in the code, so | there is that, and if the XML format is as close to the old LyX format | as it seems it might be, the lyx2lyx might be trivial. But if it's | not, then it seems we already have what we need.
this is what we used to do... it quickly become very cumbersome to drag that code around. esp. when the format evolves further then you either get really spagetti code trying to handle several different formats or you get huge amounts of duplicated code, or you have to say that this version of lyx only support formats 1,2,3... then lyx2lyx was created and life became a lot easier. -- Lgb