I have a manuscript which I plan to submit for publication. In its current form, it is in a format different from what the journal expects and as such must be converted to the format (IEEE) expected by the journal. (I normally do this by copy-pasting large sections of text.) If the manuscript is rejected by the journal then I will have to either revert to the original format or convert to a third format for another journal. I have a version control problem across formats if I make further edits to any version in any format. Besides tediously manually editing all versions, making the same changes, is there any way to keep a master document and spawn one or more alternately-formatted versions with the same content, thus saving the headache of manually editing each version?
I know that LyX has a version control capacity but I have never used it and I suspect it is not appropriate for this scenario. Jerry
