Helge Hafting wrote: > You can have layout files that aren't format 2 - that is nice > if you sometimes use lyx 1.3 too. They can then use the same > layout files, with all the limitations of the old format. > I believe that when LyX 1.4 uses an old layout file, it does an > implicit conversion to format 2 each time.
That is true. > If you include other layout files (.layout or .inc) from the > lyx-1.4 distributions, then you really should use "format 2" > because all that stuff is in format 2. I don't know if mixing > layout formats might have some bad side effects. Using format 2 > also avoid that conversion. There are no bad side effects, you can mix formats as you want, as long as each file either has the "Format 2" line (if it is in format 2) or does not have such a line (if it is in format 1). Georg
