John,
will do this off list.
el
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On 3 Sep 2019, 03:50 +0200, John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com>, wrote:
> el,
> Any chance that you could attach a .lyx file with an short example of how the
> preamble would look? For lazy latex newbies like me. If this would take too
> much time, forget this request. I will probably eventually learn enough
> myself. Or I could probably pigeon-hole my college professor latex-expert
> son-in-law when I visit them over Christmas.
> John
> On Monday, September 2, 2019 2:35:36 PM PDT Dr Eberhard Lisse 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 , list_em...@icloud.com 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
