M-L wrote: > I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: > > File - then to Export - then to LyX 1.5.x > > With each of them. > > Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on my Linux > Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX 1.5.5 > > It wouldn't open but gave me the wrong version error message.
Maybe you picked the wrong file? Note that Export does not overwrite the original document, but creates a new one with the suffix *.lyx15 (this is to preserve the native new features of 1.6, which will end up in ERT if you re- open the 1.5 file). You can check this by the format number. The exported file (to 1.5.x) has \lyxformat 276 while the 1.6.x file has \lyxformat 345 To open the *.lyx15 file, you might need to change the suffix back to *.lyx (some versions know this suffix, though). > So I can't tell you what went wrong, it didn't and wouldn't show > anything but the error message, and when that was clicked off, just an > empty LyX screen with LYX on it? > > So sorry, I can't give you some more details about what fails, > because I don't know. The error message was nothing more than that. I > just know it doesn't work for me. A minimal example file would help as well. > But I have done as stated above and changed the lines and that does > work. > > I know - it doesn't help - it just works and the documents I have done > this with, I am still working on and they are fine. It would appear > that one way [the right way?] works for you and another works for me and > some other people? No. The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). So if it works for you, it is pure luck. Jürgen
