On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM <list_em...@icloud.com> wrote: > Sure. But there’s always the final rejection. :-( FWIW, IEEE Access > operates very close to a binary model, thumbs-up or -down with little > chance for modifications. They did allow me one round of changes, however. >
I got the impression from my interaction that it's a binary model because they want to improve publishing times: They officially say it's a reject and you get feedback. But then you are free to resubmit with the feedback, only as a "new" submission. That way if they decide to publish the second revision, it was published in only the time since that submission (any prior submissions were "rejections" of a different paper, so that "time" doesn't count). It's good, since you're free to publish somewhere else when it's a binary decision (you're not in a gray "accepted with major revisions" area). But the times to publish are somewhat debateable, since nobody knows how many prior rejections were involved. What is there to not appreciate about LyX? A missing layout file would be > the only problem, right? And mental inertia of your colleagues. Have you seen ShareLaTeX? It is a big reason people stick to LaTeX for papers they write together, and I have to admit it's a good argument. Installing LyX on Windows is also more of a pain than ever. I'm using LaTeX Workshop plugin in Visual Studio Code, and it's very slick. There's a huge community supporting it.
