On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:43:16AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> It is not that easy. When I send my file to other who don't have LyX 1.6.4 > >> the file doesn't work while we promise that all files in a stable release > >> series. When we would have added this only to LyX 2.0 we would be able to > >> handle this in lyx2lyx by incrementing the file format. We have done this > >> often in the past. Now we cannot easily use lyx2lyx. > > > > Your logic astonishes me. By the same logic, better not to fix bugs for > > 1.6.5 as they won't work for 1.6.4. The lyx2lyx argument has nothing > > to do with it, as there wasn't a file format change. > > The problem is that we haven't introduced a fileformat change and > released it with LyX 2.0. Then we could easily convert the mhchem > preamble entry to the user preamble so that the document would be > compilable with LyX 1.6.x.
I am still unable to understand your reasoning. > Note that the addition of mhchem was adding a new feature not a bug > fix. I use \ce and mhchem successfully also with LyX 1.6.3. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6047 > Besides this general issue, you found the real bug in this particular case. Guenter had already discovered it: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5530 -- Enrico
