On Wednesday 14 April 2004 21:03, Georg Baum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2004 12:01 schrieb Jose' Matos:
> > The big changes were comited. Now is the right time make a short
> > summary of what has been done and what remains. Your feedback is
> > welcome. :-)
>
> So far I have not been able to break it ;-)

  Now I'm impressed. ;-)

> >     - There is the possibility to redirect the error and warnings to a
> > file that could be read inside lyx, easing thus bug reports from
> > the users.
>
> Not only that. lyx2lyx can never do every conversion perfectly even
> if it is "bug-free", and as a user I want to know if a conversion was
> ok or not.

  Fair, but possibly this will only be available from the command line.

> > To do:
> > *****
> >     - Add a command line option to specify the target lyx version.

  Again this is not a problem for LyX's usage only for people using the 
command line. It easy to add it, if someone wants to be my guest. :-)

> >     - Internationalization? There is support inside python to use
> > gettext, and we can fallback to english if that support is not
> > present. (A few lines of code, if that matters)
>
> Probably useful when warnings and errors are visible in LyX.

  Guess you are right.
  Jean-Marc should I put po files, or should I forget the subject. :-)

> >     - Add support for lyx-0.8 and elder versions. (This is my pet
> > project ;-)).
>
>       - Some functions in parser_tools work only for older formats, for
> example get_paragraph(). It might be necessary to extend them to
> handle newer formats, too.

  True, that was one of the motivations to enumerate the functions used 
by the different modules in the header.

  And some of them are dated, no doubt. We should put an effort on 
documenting the assumptions of parser_tools functions.

> Georg

-- 
José Abílio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)

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