On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:14:15PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > In my opinion, the problems when reading old files (bugs #374,#375,#376) > are unacceptable. > > I suggest a different approach for this problem: > the conversion should be done by an outside script and not in LyX source code. > Attached is a proof of concept script that converts minipages & float from > old format to new format. > The script correctly handle the test case of bugs #374,#375,#376. > Comments?
Great!
This is the direction that we should be going in when we are handling
file format changes. I think that newer LyX should not be burdened
with supporting older file formats. Instead, convertor scripts should
be provided.
---Kayvan
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