On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:36:43PM +0100, Jos? Ab?lio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> I would like to work to attain such goal but you should notice that the
> internal structure of such a block can change between versions so your plan
> isn't bullet proof.
Yes, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:43, Jules Bean wrote:
> OK. Well, seeing the problems being debated in that thread, I have a
> proposal to make.
>
> I can't over-emphasise how important the bitrot thing is: it really
> *must* be possible to read 3,5,7, 10 year old documents in LyX.
> Consider that in
On 28-May-2002 Jules Bean wrote:
> Then an old version of LyX can attempt to load a new version's docs
> ('Newer version detected, attempting to load anyway\n Unknown block
> type 'foo' ignored'), and, *most* of the time, a new version of the
> file format will just be a 'superset' of the old ve