Am Dienstag, 5. März 2013, 17:10:56 schrieb David L. Johnson: > On 03/05/2013 02:40 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> For reasons I don't understand, debian does not put the lyx2lyx file > >> in your path. On my machine (testing, not unstable, but it is the > >> same), it is in /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/ so > >> /usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx filename filename should work. > > > > Mind you, I compiled and installed lyx 2.0.5-1 in my home/wolfgang/ > > There are in lyx-2.0.5.1/lib/ > > a number of lyx2lyx files: > > lyx2lyx > > lyx2lyx_lang > > lyx2lyx_tools > > lyx2lyx_version > > lyx2lyx_version.py.in > > lyx2lyx_version.pyc > > > > this is my (negative) result: > > wolfgang@wolfgang:/mnt/sda/home/wolfgang/lyx-2.0.5.1/lib/lyx2lyx$ > > lyx2lyx bash: lyx2lyx: Kommando nicht gefunden. > > because that directory is not in your path. > > > wolfgang@wolfgang:/mnt/sda/home/wolfgang/lyx-2.0.5.1/lib/lyx2lyx$ > > ./lyx2lyx > > > > > > since I did not know what to expect. Does the prg open a kind of menu > > in which I can insert the name(s) of the lyx files to be converted to > > the lower version > > No, it gets the filename as an argument, and then generates the new > version. You can actually read that off of the file lyx2lyx itself, > which is a script: "usage: %prog [options] [file]". Options are > things like --verbose, --quiet, --debug. Unless you specify an output > by the option "-o outputfilename" it will spit the output to stdout. > > So, to process a file "oldfile.lyx" and get an updated version > "newfile.lyx", enter on the command line: > > /full/path/to/lyx2lyx -o newfile.lyx oldfile.lyx > > it worked for me.
Thanks, David, in the meantime I managed to export the 2.0 version from the 2.1, but your advice would speed up the conversion of the many other documents I produced with 2.1. By the way, is there any idea when the 2.1 version will be official? Wolfgang
