On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 09:52:29PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 11/27/2015 08:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

> Actually, I really meant that *I* should have done it, since I'm
> probably more aware of the
> need to do it, since I wrote the prefs2prefs stuff.....

I understood. I was just frustrated with myself because I should have
checked for that. I cannot assume things like that have been done.

> Yes, I think it would be useful to ask people to do this, for exactly
> the reason you mention.
> If people find it difficult to do for some reason, then someone else can
> do it, and we can
> ask the person who changed the format to look at the diff.

Does anyone object if I put this in Development.lyx? I will document how
to update the relevant files for each of the different formats.

> > This way if there is a bug in lyx2lyx we can easily see which layout > 
> > update made an unexpected change by looking at the git log of a .lyx
> > file that suffers the problem.
> 
> I'm still thinking about lyx2lyx tests. But certainly a very basic
> requirement should be that
> the forward conversion of the manuals works properly.

+1

Scott

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