On 2009-08-17, José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 13 August 2009 22:31:38 Pavel Sanda wrote: >> John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> > My suggestion: >> > - Allow user the set a default file format for new files. >> > - Always give user option of preserving files existing format
>> if you mean something else than to externaly call lyx2lyx which do the work >> then its quite undoable task. > I agree with Pavel. :-) > The mantra that I repeat over and over (otherwise it would not be a > mantra ;-) ) is that the downgrade option of lyx2lyx is a nicety > feature for our users with lots of caveats. Implying that the forward > and backward paths of lyx2lyx are interchangeable is dangerous (to say > the least). However, a possibility to either * set the output format for the File>Save_As action, or * set the filename for the File>Export>... action would help a lot (without an automatism that could imply lossless conversion). Günter
