> On Dec 22, 2020, at 2:58 AM, list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
>
> The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has a series of
> new ‘open” journals which use a different Tex format than other IEEE journals.
>
> A superficial inspection shows that the main difference is that the abstract
> and index terms span the entire width of the page whereas the traditional
> format confines those elements to a column width in the two-column format.
>
> Does anyone know of a LyX layout or template for IEEE open journals?
>
> The IEEE LaTex templates are a few clicks away from this text, "IEEE article
> templates,” on this page:
> https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-journal-article/authoring-tools-and-templates/
>
> Jerry
I am attaching herewith a candidate LyX template for the IEEE Open Journals.
The IEEE LaTeX template, open.tex, is derived from the IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics template, but with differences. I was able to make this new template
by making a mash-up of the LyX templates IEEEtran-Journal.lyx and
IEEEtran-TransMag.lyx, and with a minor and normally unnecessary addition to
the LaTeX preamble section of the new template. I did not find it necessary to
make a new layout file but this might be desirable for a minor feature
mentioned below.
The template passes the follow test:
1. Open a copy of the template.
2. Import open.tex, the IEEE LaTeX template, into a new LyX document.
3. Perform the following five copy-pastes from open.tex as opened in LyX into
the new template:
* Title
* Authors
* Abstract
* Index terms
* The entire remainder of open.tex
4. Just for this test, because of the annoying note after the index terms which
would never appear in an actual paper, convert the style of that note to
“Standard in Title.” Also, just for this test, change the position of Figure 1
from “Default” to “Top."
5. Render to PDF.
6. Send the new PDF and the IEEE’s open.pdf to
https://www.diffchecker.com/pdf-diff/.
7. Observe that the very few differences are completely trivial and not a fault
of the template.
I have these notes:
* The IEEE’s open.tex has the title of the first section in all caps. In the
template this is only an initial cap. Surely this is an error in the IEEE file.
* The IEEE’s open.tex lacks an author photo feature. Examination of papers in
one IEEE open journal shows author photos, thus the template contains this
feature.
* open.tex contains no BibTeX bibliography, only in-file references. The IEEE
requires references to be in-file for the final version but some authors will
prefer to work with BibTeX up to the final version, bringing references in from
the .aux file, so this feature was brought over from IEEEtrans-Journal.lyx.
(Does LyX offer an automatic way to import references from .aux? How about a
new feature?)
* There are three main kinds of differences between a bare_jrnl.tex and
bare_jrnl_transmag.tex, reflected in six non-trivial differences when diff-ing
the tex files. The first is the formatting of authors, affiliations, and
thanks. The second is the placement of \maketitle. (This second difference
interacted with the annoying note to cause a problem noted earlier in this
thread regarding non-title layouts.) These differences were reconciled in the
mash-up so that the appearance agrees with the new open format.
* The third difference is that open.tex does not contain the optional “Special
Paper Notice” whereby “Invited Paper” appears in italics; this is present in
normal Transactions papers (but only those that were invited) including the
corresponding LyX template. I suppose that there might be the need for this
feature in some IEEE Open Journal papers but I was not able to fix it. I tried
commenting out the line "NoStyle Special_Paper_Notice” in
IEEEtran-TransMag.layout but to no affect. Fixing this minor issue will require
a bit more investigation and possibly making a separate layout file for the new
template. For reference for anyone looking into this, IEEEtran.layout, which
IEEEtran-TransMag.layout imports, contains this passage:
Style Special_Paper_Notice
CopyStyle Title
LatexName IEEEspecialpapernotice
InTitle 1
Font
Shape Italic
SizeLarge
EndFont
End
* The IEEE’s open.tex uses Computer Modern for math symbols but published
papers use Times. I adhered to the style of open.tex, preferring to let the
IEEE deal with this particular bit of shabbiness. Maybe they won’t mind if
authors make the switch on their own.
* I don’t know why, in the test sequence above, I had to change the float
placement of Fig. 1 from Default to Top, in order to get a match with the
IEEE’s open.pdf. Default places it at the bottom of a column but Top places it
under the table in the next column, near the top.
* While the template results in a successful test as described above, there
might be some ‘hidden” differences in the generated
