Jean-Pierre,
thanks for the feedback.
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
> Then inside the report, I noticed 4 differences
> a) the french guillemets are translated as
[ERT instead of quotes]
This will be fixed soon.
> b) text of labels is concerted in quoted-printable, which does not impact
> the functionality, but is harder to read
I don't understand what you mean. Can you please provide a minimal
example .tex file and the resulting .lyx file?
> c) the \appendix command in inserted after the sectioning command: this
> kills the numbering in the appendix as the section number is not known.
> This does impact on functionality, but is easily solved by redfining the
> "Start appendix here" command in the Layout menu
Again: Example please. The \appendix command should not be moved to a
different place.
> d) I use bibunits.sty in this doc, and constructs like \putbib[mybib] are
> converted with the optional arg outside ERT. This impacts on
> functionality, but anyway LyX does not run bibtex on the .aux files
> created by the package. As I don't use the more recent chapterbib
> package, I don't know if the usage of bibunits is such deprecated that
> this does not require correction.
This will be fixed soon.
> With another report however, this behaviour happens with subfigure, where
> the subfigure command is in ERT (instead of being in the figure inset) and
> the argumnent outside, so the result is incorrect. This really needs
> correction before 1.4.0. As I get a message from the lyx2lyx converter, I
> don't really know if this is a tex2lyx or a lyx2]yx issue:
Again, please provide an example .tex file.
> Converting rap_int_08848.tex to lyx format 241...
> Ignoring options 'T1' of package fontenc.
> Converting back to lyx format 221...
> Conversion of 'sideways true' not yet implemented.
> Conversion of 'sideways true' not yet implemented.
This is missing functionality in lyx2lyx
> Malformed LyX file: Missing 'status'.
> Malformed LyX file: Missing 'status'.
This should not happen. Again, please provide an example.
> Lastly it seems that the converter adds a \bibliographystyle{plain} in ERT
> if there is no \bibliographystyle command in the document: this fails if
> the command is in the class (which I did here to close a local report
> class as much as possible). This one is easy to correct.
This is documented in the known issues section.
> I wanted to give feedbacl on beamer docs, but the conversion fails:
> Ignoring options 'frenchb' of package babel.
> Ignoring options 'T1' of package fontenc.
> LyX: Unknown TextClass tag `MaxCounter' [around line 10 of file
> /usr/local/LyX/share/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout] We failed to find the
> layout 'Standard' in the layout list. You MUST investigate! Assertion
> triggered in const LyXLayout_ptr& LyXTextClass::operator[](const
> std::string&) const by failing check "false" in file lyxtextclass.C:816
The layout files are wrong. Maybe they need to be converted for 1.4?
Georg
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