On 8/30/19 8:03 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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
For what it's worth, I generally do the initial draft in either
"Article" or "Article (AMS)". If the journal wants submissions in a
different format (some do, in my experience most don't care during the
review process), and assuming I can find a LyX layout file for the class
they want, I just switch the class, view a PDF and see if anything is
horribly wrong. A minimal amount of touching up and it's ready to submit.
Paul
