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@@ -230,14 +230,23 @@ Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.0.x
 
 - There has been a large change in how Flex insets are named. Previously,
   they tended to have names like "CharStyle:Noun". Now, they just have
-  names like "Flex:Noun" (where "Flex" is a namespace that is optional).
-  When LyX 2.0 reads older files, it silently converts the old-style names
-  to new-style names; this direction works perfectly. It will also silently
-  revert new-style names to old-style names, when exporting to 1.6.x format,
-  but only for the pre-defined LyX insets. This means that user-defined flex
-  insets will not be properly reverted.
-  To solve this problem, you can modify the file $LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_0.py.
-  In that file, you will find the following:
+  names like "Flex:Noun" (where the "Flex" prefix is now required). When 
+  LyX 2.0 reads older files, it silently converts the old-style names
+  to new-style names; this direction works almost perfectly. The one place
+  it does not work is with CopyStyle declarations, IF your old InsetLayout
+  was NOT named "CharStyle:..." or "Custom:..." or "Element:...", but, say,
+  just "MyInset". In that case, "InsetLayout MyInset" will be changed to
+  "InsetLayout Flex:MyInset", but "CopyStyle MyInset" will be left as is.
+  Users will need to make that kind of change manually. The best way to do
+  this is to use the layout2layout.py script, which gets installed in
+  $LYXDIR/scripts/layout2layout.py, to convert your custom layout files to
+  the new format, and then check them for correctness.
+   
+  LyX will also silently revert new-style names to old-style names when 
+  exporting to 1.6.x format, but only for the pre-defined LyX insets. This 
+  means that user-defined flex insets will not be properly reverted. To solve 
+  this problem, you can modify the file $LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_0.py. In that 
+  file, you will find the following:
     flex_insets = {
       "Alert" : "CharStyle:Alert",
       "Code" : "CharStyle:Code",
@@ -257,7 +266,7 @@ Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.0.x
       "PresentationMode" : "Custom:PresentationMode",
       "Tri-Glosse" : "Custom:Tri-Glosse"
     }
-  This is a map form new-style names (minux "Flex") to old-style names (and
+  This is a map from new-style names (minux "Flex") to old-style names (and
   there is a similar for DocBook elements). To get a user-defined CharStyle
   to revert properly, it simply needs to be added to this list.