On Saturday, 8 April 2017 00.14.33 WEST Charlie wrote: > More numbers. > > I attempted several encodings with the text editor but no joy. The > numbers changed a little bit but not a great deal. > > Just a question here. One of the reasons use LyX is because I thought > any LyX file could be opened in a text editor and the contents rescued? > Now I wonder? I assume that I will lose some file and their content > anyway?
The output that you show looks like Postscript and not lyx in any reasonable way. > It doesn't matter if no one can help me with the problem. However, I > would like to know if I will lose old LyX files, be unable to open them > as time goes on and LyX evolves? LyX uses an auxiliary program called lyx2lyx to convert the old formats and until the moment we have a very good record. If there are any bugs we fix them as soon as possible. I am not aware of any file where we have failed the conversion. > TIA > > Stay well, > Charlie Regards, -- José Abílio
