Am 06.12.2012 14:56, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
My idea would be to provide a new layout with a new name (journalx-new.layout), then lyx2lyx could change this to journalx.layout in the new major release (and also the old journalx.layout) and revert accordingly.
That is very confusing. What happens if we have 5 layout versions. How do we name them? But as I just explained, backward compatibility is not necessary.
This proper conversion would also prevent that people cannot process anymore their old paper because the layout names change.
This is not a good idea. When I want to submit to a journal or update my CV I would still want to have my old file compilable and only need to change 2, or 3 things quickly. And this is possible with all my layout changes (except of modernCV as I wrote).
regards Uwe
