lyx2lyx roundtrip test failing with BibTeX errors

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:14:49PM +0100, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 August 2020 17.40.51 WEST Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > I'm guessing this happens because we export ERT/preamble stuff in the
> > backwards conversion, and in the forwards conversion we (understandably)
> > do not take into account the ERT. Unless anyone wants to take a closer
> > look, I plan to invert the test (i.e., mark in the ctests that we expect
> > this test to fail), especially since it is regarding 2.2.x and not even
> > 2.3.x.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> You are right, as soon as ERT enters the backport the roundtrip test becomes 
> doomed. Yes, it can work but and yes sometimes we could improve the ERT 
> (probably in convoluted ways) to simplify a later forward conversion but it is 
> not worth the cost-benefit of such work.
> 
> IMHO, of course. :-)

Thanks for taking a look, José. That sounds good. I added a sublabel for
the inverted ctests (at c44cfec3) to track cases that fall under this
category.

Scott
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