On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:45:13PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > It turned out that my initial analysis of bug 2026 was wrong. Read > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2026 for details. > > The summary is that lyx2lyx has the layout name "Standard" hardcoded in > several places, and that it will make documents of classes without the > layout "Standard" invalid that contain things like ERT, comments, some > kinds of boxes and some other things. > > José proposed the following solution: > > > - use a new optional argument, as you can imagine related to the package > "Standard Layout". The default argument of it being "Standard". > > This suggestion avoids complications, one of them being reading the > corresponding textclass files. > > Replace then all references to Standard with file.default_layout (this > being > the new value read from the argument). > > Then in lyx it is enough to pass this argument to lyx2lyx. > > This seems a simple fix, and it works retroactively. > > > I know that it is late, but since this is a serious problem IMHO, I ask > nevertheless: > Do we want that for 1.4.0/1.3.7? > > > Georg
Do we have a working prototype for this? It seems like a good solution. - Martin
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