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These tests would be like the tex2lyx tests we have and would have the clear advantage of not depending on LyX.
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This file describes tests that might be useful to implement.
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lyx2lyx tests
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One way to implemente tests of lyx2lyx is to do a roundtrip lyx2lyx
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conversion (e.g. with the previous major release format) and then compare the
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exported .tex files before and after. Ideally there should be no change.
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Georg detailed a clearly better idea, but would take more time to implement:
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If you want to test lyx2lyx, then I would strongly advise to test lyx2lyx
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alone, without LyX. This would be exactly the same procedure as we do with
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tex2lyx: For each test case, keep the expected output of lyx2lyx as
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reference, and verify once (when creating the test), that LyX will produce
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the correct output. When testing, do only compare the lyx2lyx output against
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the refernce. If you keep LyX (and even pdflatex) in the chain, then you
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will be testing lyx2lyx, LyX and pdflatex at the same time, which will
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increase the probability of failing tests, and the search for the cause will
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be more difficult.
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Finally I have a general remark: The forward conversion in lyx2lyx is much
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more important than the backward conversion, and the only one we guarantee
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to work for each format step. The backward conversion is only implemented
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for those cases where it is possible with reasonable effort. If we start to
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test lyx2lyx, then we should start with the forward conversion.
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For (possibly) more discussion, see:
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https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=n15uao%24upk%241%40ger.gmane.org
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