lyx2lyx error

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

Ideas?



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Subject: 	Re: Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3
Date: 	Tue, 5 Sep 2023 20:03:16 -0500
From: 	Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com>
To: 	Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com>
CC: 	LyX Users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>



On 5 Sep 2023, at 5:01 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/23 16:45, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> LyX folk,
>>
>> I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am 
>> unable to open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the 
>> conversion script is failing to export to 2.3.x. By changing 
>> "\lyxformat 618” to "\lyxformat 616” I was able to load the document 
>> in 2.4.0-beta3 although I got two "Document header” errors: "Unknown 
>> token: \use_formatted_ref \use_formatted_ref” and "Unknown token: 0 
>> 0”. After saving the file, it opened without any errors in beta3 and 
>> the contents appear to be OK. But I’d prefer a more elegant solution 
>> if one exists.
>
> You can run the lyx2lyx script manually, with option: -t 616, to 
> export to that format.

Hm, I'm getting a "format not supported" with that option.

> What error are you getting from the 2.3.x export? That's a serious bug.

Error message below, generated inside the terminal when I started lyx 
from the command line and tried to export my longish (614k) document to 
2.3.x.

-chris

*****
lyx2lyx warning: An error occurred in 604, <function revert_vcolumns2 at 
0x7fe2423d7600>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 97, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 91, in main
    doc.convert()
  File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", line 702, in convert
    conv(self)
  File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_4.py", line 4154, in 
revert_vcolumns2
    elif count_pars_in_inset(document.body, begcell + 2) > 1:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/parser_tools.py", line 692, in 
count_pars_in_inset
    if m and get_containing_inset(lines, j)[1] == ins[1]:
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
TypeError: 'bool' object is not subscriptable
Systemcall.cpp (306): Systemcall: 'python3 -tt 
"/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx" -V 2.3 -o 
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existenc
e.23.lyx" "Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.lyx"' finished with 
exit code 1
Error: Cannot convert file
----------------------------------------
An error occurred while running:
python3 -tt $$s/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -V 2.3 -o
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.23.lyx"
"Logic,_Modality,_and_Singular_Existence.lyx"

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