File format increases on master make it hard to test

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 4/7/24 12:46, José Matos wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 11:31 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> Fair enough. That was what I was afraid of (and expected).
>>
>> Scott
> A possible mid-term solution, to your use case, is to set the output
> format of the latest stable version.
>
> This would mean that any document is always imported to the latest
> development release and when saved it is done in the stable file
> format.
>
> On the other hand what this would mean to stress the
> conversion/reversion round trip.
>
> This could be implemented as some kind of option to set, by default,
> the save file format version or even better, because in this case this
> is what it intended, the target version.
>
> In the preferences file this could go as:
>
> \save_file_format 2.4
>
> If this option is not set then everything works as usual.
> If it is set then, when the file is saved, the file is reverted to that
> file format.
>
> I hope that this idea helps, :-)

That is a good idea. It's too late for 2.4.x, but if it were added early 
to master, then it would be usable for Scott's purpose.

The roundtrip would of course only matter if one made use of features 
that required a format change.

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