> /afs/inria.fr/rocq/home/imara/lasgoutt/dash.lyx is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. > > The last sentence is what I get in a dialog box. Could I get LyX to > tell me that it is a _too_new_ version of the file format? > >
>Alert::error(_("Conversion script failed"), > bformat(_("%1$s is from a different version" > " of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script" > " failed to convert it."), > from_utf8(filename.absFilename()))); > > return failure; > > >So yes, I suppose, if lyx2lyx were to return different error codes >depending upon what the problem was. if (file_format != LYX_FORMAT) { [.. Try to convert ..] if (file_format > LYX_FORMAT) Alert::error(_("File is newer, and LyX couldn't convert it."), else Alert::error(_("File is older, and LyX couldn't convert it."), } Vincent