Am Dienstag, 5. März 2013, 20:09:38 schrieb Georg Baum: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 5. März 2013, 17:10:56 schrieb David L. Johnson: > >> No, it gets the filename as an argument, and then generates the new > >> version. You can actually read that off of the file lyx2lyx itself, > >> which is a script: "usage: %prog [options] [file]". Options are > >> things like --verbose, --quiet, --debug. Unless you specify an > >> output by the option "-o outputfilename" it will spit the output to > >> stdout. > >> > >> So, to process a file "oldfile.lyx" and get an updated version > >> "newfile.lyx", enter on the command line: > >> > >> /full/path/to/lyx2lyx -o newfile.lyx oldfile.lyx > > Caution: This converts to the latest version known by lyx2lyx. If you > copy the 2.1 lyx2lyx into the 2.0 installation as suggested elsewhere > (which works without further adjustments, and is probably the most easy > way to deal with files in the new format), you always have to give the > -t 413 arguments if you want to convert to 2.0.x format. Otherwise the > command above would convert to format 464 (the current 2.1 format > number).
Thanks, George, for this warning. My big mistake was to use the 2.1 svn version which an ignorant such as me should not do (though I must say I had not many problems with it, except occasional crashes which never lead to any loss of work). > > By the way, is there any idea when the 2.1 version will be official? > > No. The development man power is very limited, and so far there is no > release plan, although it seems to be consensus to stop with new > features and concentrate on the release. I am sorry that I can't help except perhaps with testing/writing the helps (the advantage would be, that I always manage to do the wrong things if the advices are not idiot-proof ...) Wolfgang
