lyx2lyx error not as informative when opening newer file

Yuriy Skalko yuriy.skalko at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 22:54:19 UTC 2022


On 10.12.2022 15:22, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> If you open a new .lyx file than the lyx2lyx version can handle we used to get:
> 
>    <file> is from a newer version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.
> 
> Now we get:
> 
>    <file> is not a readable LyX document.
> 
> You can test this by just manually incremending the number in the first
> line of a .lyx file.
> 
> Bisect leads to:
>    
>    commit fb7b7e5223bc0a03e5b4a89b15f1be0bc0d05385
>    Author: Yuriy Skalko <yuriy.skalko at gmail.com>
>    Date:   Fri Sep 11 00:22:55 2020 +0300
>    
>        Refactor runCommand
>    
> Yuriy, do you by chance have time to take a look? If not, no problem, I
> can take a look.
> 
> Scott

Hi Scott, I've not much experienced with lyx2lyx, can you describe 
exactly how to reproduce this? What OS do you use in your test?

On manual incrementing the number I've got:

lyx2lyx warning: 613: Format not supported.
lyx2lyx warning: Quitting.


Yuriy



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