> On Aug 30, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
True sometimes, but as I replied to Chris, one format can have several features that the other one doesn’t have and the touching-up can become a pain because that field information is probably in-line LaTeX (ERT). IEEE has several fields that are possibly rare or even unique to them. Copy-pasting the content portion into the LyX IEEE template can work faster then, with manual filling-in of the IEEE-unique fields as they are provided by the template. (Thanks to whoever made the IEEE layout and template—it’s fantastic.) Jerry > > Paul >
