On Wednesday, 15 March 2017 19.06.07 WET Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Attached is a minimal example from here: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/358326/my-font-shows-up-in-the-font-l > ist-but-the-document-wont-compile > > It was created with 2.0.8.1. > > When I open it in 2.1.0 or 2.2.x I get: > > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_mathdots. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Missing \suppress_date. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_package. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_package amsmath. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_package. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_package. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: Can't find \use_package. > Warning: Malformed LyX document: No \font_sf_scale! > Warning: Malformed LyX document: No \font_tt_scale! > > Is the document indeed malformed or is there possibly a bug in lyx2lyx? > > Scott
As Enrico said usually lyx generated files have a larger header. So if this file has been produced by lyx it is not in its pristine form. With that said we could probably improve the warnings. One example is when there is a new file format change that introduces new header elements. The corresponding lyx2lyx change should add those headers with the default values. I am not sure that we do this for all those cases. What happens when lyx reads a file where those headers are not present is to assume the default values. It happens sometimes that we change the default values between major versions, a file that has the headers set is immune to the change in the default values because those only apply to new files. One other problem with labeling this files as malformed is that there are several levels of malformed, from the the minor warning to the case where lyx is not able to read the file. OK, that is all for the little rambling that I had one this issue. Thanks for reading it. :-) Regards, -- José Abílio
