On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:32:10PM +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Thursday 01 August 2002 16:24, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > I guess my question is: How does an ordinary user know when to invoke > > lyx2lyx? > > It shouldn't, IMHO. > > > By ordinary user, I mean one who may not even know how to look at a lyx > > file other than with lyx, and knows nothing about \lyxformat. Somebody > > sends them an old lyx file. They open it in their brand new lyx and it > > looks funny or crashes. Can (does) lyx itself provide a message guiding > > them to lyx2lyx or giving them the option to invoke it from lyx? > > It should be lyx to do that work, again IMHO.
I've already written the code for this. The only think missing is a Makefile.am file that will put a link to lyx2lyx in /usr/bin/
