File format increases on master make it hard to test

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:13:44PM GMT, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that is a good idea, but I would not want to use that setting
for most of my documents. I find that doing repeated lyx2lyx does not
create a smooth workflow.

Scott
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