On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:45:40AM +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 09:20, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > The problem is if I co-operate with people that do not use current CVS head > > for daily work, their docs are _silently_ converted to 220 if I just change > > a single char. As long as lyx2lyx does not works equally well for > > downgrading, this can cause severe problems. > > You are saving a document with cvs version and expecting it to remain with > the old version? Saving is the keyword.
I am co-operating with people which use 1.2. If I need to make a change I want to be able to save that. And yes, I use 1.3cvs for my part. > If we want any change to the document then there isn't any other choice to > save in an old format, or is there? > > The only place where it makes sense to ask something is when saving the > file, not when converting initially as Lars proposes. Or is you want when > some change is made, but _not_ when opening the file. What if I want just see > the file, should I care if lyx translate the file? That is lyx's business. If you can guarantee that I don't edit a silently converted doc for an hour and LyX won't save it afterwards as it does not like the version... > ????? Data loss is always possible when doing this, so I don't know how > useful this is. Importing old format, making trivial changes with new lyX and saving old format should be possible without data loss. And yes, this is useful. > > Better not to touch the original... > > Why do you concern only now? :-) Because I was not aware of the silence of the conversion earlier and I did not really try earlier it as you provided the missing link to make it usable for me just a few days ago. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
