On 08/29/2018 02:49 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2018 18:56:12 CEST schrieb José Abílio Matos > <jama...@lyx.org>: >> On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18.48.55 WEST Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>> The problem is that layout2layout does not convert to older formats, >>> only to newer ones. >>> And it's not clear how it would even be possible to do that, except just >>> to delete newer >>> layout info. >>> >>> Riki >> My remark was about converting the layout information to newer formats. :-)
Forward conversion isn't an issue: We leave the local layout as is and run layout2layout as necessary, just as we would with external modules, etc. Note that (when appropriate) there is also a button in Document> Local Layout that will do the forward conversion. So we leave it to the user to initiate the conversion, if they wish, but make it easy. > The original problem is the local layout inside lyx. I'll just mention that this applies both to the case of user-provided local layout and also "forced local layout" added by LyX. > So that the lyx2lyx is creating invalid > lyx file if exporting to older format. For 'normal' layouts, this is not so > urgent, because the older layout should already be available by the target > person receiving the exported lyx-file. Though the format tag will still be wrong, and LyX will choke when trying to load the file. But in that case there is a very simple solution. Riki
