On Friday 07 December 2007 19:47:25 Christopher Menzel wrote: > Howdy, > > I am unable to import some older LyX files (from 2000 -- LyX format > version 215) and I'm not finding any solutions on the web or the LyX > archives or Wiki. Inside LyX, I get the following msg: > > (MyFile) is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script > failed to convert it. > > When I try to run lyx2lyx from the command line I get the following > debug info: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./lyx2lyx", line 101, in <module> > sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) > File "./lyx2lyx", line 92, in main > file = LyX.File(end_format, input, output, error, debug, > try_hard, cjk_encoding) > File "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", > line 556, in __init__ > self.read() > File "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", > line 242, in read > self.encoding = get_encoding(self.language, self.inputencoding, > self.format, self.cjk_encoding) > File "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", > line 128, in get_encoding > return lang[language][3] > KeyError: 'default' > > Looking through the LyX file, I do not see any unusual characters; > appears to be standard ASCII all the way. Help/advice appreciated.
A fix to this problem was committed to the next version (1.5.3). Meanwhile a simple fix is to change the file by hand. Where it says (in the first lines of the file) \language default change it to \language english As I said this problem is already fixed in svn. This is just a shortcut in the meanwhile. > Chris Menzel -- José Abílio
