el, Thanks. I’ll give this some thought. I suppose it’s time to learn the version control stuff anyway. I’ve used SVN and GIT (GIT barely) for code.
I would suppose if I did it your way then I would be looking at diffs of text files. This is OK until I have to start looking at diffs of math code. Jerry > On Sep 2, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jerry, > > what version control problem? > > If you are on a Mac or Linux, and you are not collaborating with other > authors, you (just :-)-O) install RCS, rerun Tool -> Reconfigure check > the sucker in and out. > > You then can put something like this in your preamble > > \usepackage{rcs-multi} > \rcsid{$Id$} > > after installing rcs-multi if you don't have it already installed, and > do all sorts of business inside like version numbers in the footer, > header, watermark or file name. Checking out a particular older version > is no drama. > > And then you can ask your friend Google for LaTeX IEEE which will return > LaTeX templates galore. I am reasonably certain that you can put a lot > of this into the preamble perhaps by way of an \include statement so > that you don't have to muck around much in the LyX for submission. > > Publish or perish :-)-O > > el > > On 2019-08-30 14:03 , [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 >> >>
