On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > I may think of this a little more, but I believe some backward > > compatibility loss is unavoidable, with all these old keywords > > disappearing. But keep in mind: only odd input will break, e.g. choose > > "Original size", but also have a value there for Scale; The Scale value > > will then be taken, instead of scale=100%. I can't see a solution for this, > > since the scale comes AFTER the Original_size keyword in the previous > > Graphics inset. > > > > Could lyx2lyx help out here? > > Maybe, but not supporting old file formats is not an option. > > I don't really see the problem that you allude to anyway. You could always > store the params in temporary variables when reading them, and then assign > then to the appropriate scale, width, height etc once you have all the data.
The code for compatibility read should not be in the lyx sources. It is quite easy to do in lyx2lyx. If you don't know how, write the differences between the old & new formats and I'll do it.