On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:29:51AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 26.10.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > - There are 2 sorts of layout issues that could violate the rule: > 1. Layouts for journals: We often had the discussion about this and my own > experience is that one MUST follow the latest style guidelines of the > document class (e.g. IEEEtran or whatever), if one does not follow, your > paper won't be accepted. Therefore LyX becomes useless if it doesn't support > the latest styles.
This is a good point that I had not considered. > 2. layouts/modules for packages where recent version removes old styles. An > example: 2 years ago moderncv deprecated the commands \mobile and \fax. Of > course the new versions of moderncv keep the old commands for compatibility. > Now imagine: the moderncv developer drops \mobile in 2016. Then users of the > latest moderncv would not be able to compile their files. > Such a case doesn't happen often, but it might be, therefore before a major > LyX release we should look through all layouts and modules and support new > commands that deprecate other ones, no matter if this is in TeXLive or not, > since we cannot know when the package authors drop support for obsoleted > commands (and because the major LyX cycle is about 2 years). users of older > versions can still use LyX as before because they don't need to use the new > styles. In general, I agree with you that when we document our new "rule" we should have several cases like the ones you mention above and also as Georg mentions (e.g. an added optional style). > I just sent the complete patch. Could you please apply it and test. I am > pretty sure it passes all tests but since i cannot perform them on my own... Is there still something that I should do or was this cleared up? Thanks for asking. Scott
