open old LyX format fails

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu Jun 15 11:53:23 UTC 2023


Herbert Voss said on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:19:27 +0200

>Hello all,
>
>I have an really old document and want to open it with
>2.4.0 Beta2, but it fail with: "Incompatible Command"
>
>My old format is 2.18
>
>macOS Sonora and TL23
>
>Any hints?

It's pretty easy to install several versions of LyX on the same
computer. I'd see if I could convert it using a LyX older than 2.4.0
Beta2, and if I can, then I'd try to convert the converted file to
2.4.0 Beta2. Obviously I'd back up the original file and back up at
each successful stage.

SteveT

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