"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:11:51PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> | 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.
>>
>> Yes, this is absolutely the way we want to go, but we will not do so
>> completely for 1.2.0. For 1.3.0 otoh we should be able to have a good
>> framework for this in place.
>
| Speaking of this...
>
| I found an interesting link: http://pylatex.sourceforge.net
>
| reLyX in python?
Yes please.
| *ducks for cover*
Get Up!!
...and do the work... you have hereby volunteered :-)
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Lgb
