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On 14/06/12 09:37, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 13/06/12 18:21, Matthias Hunstig wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> I just saw this thread now, but I would like to add something as I have done
>> the same
>> (submit a paper to Elsevier) on Monday. The following worked for me. I used
>> one document, two
>> .bib files, and all 10 figures were eps and in the same directory as the Lyx
>> file.
>
> All my figures were pdf, which possibly explains why I didn't have any
> re-sizing issues. But
> as far as I remember, Elsevier is using pdflatex to create the pdf and using
> texlive 2009 (I
> saw this when I got errors in compiling the document) Yes - all files in one
> directory is
> important, but I usually prefer to have them in separate sub-directories
> (graphs, pictures,
> ...) to not clutter the directory to much - but I might change this for the
> next paper.
>
>
>> - Use the elsarticle class. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Elsevier) - Export
>> as LaTeX
>> (normal) - Export as LyX-Archive - Remove myarticle.lyx from the archive,
>> add myarticle.tex
>> instead. - Upload zip
>
> Haven't thought about that, but sounds like a *very* usable approach - maybe
> a new export
> format like this would be useful?
>
> So it worked with the bib files? good to know.
>
>
>> When previewing in LyX, use ps2pdf, as it may give different results than
>> pdflatex (in my
>> case, wrong cropping of eps figures).
>
> As mentioned above, I used pdf as graphs, and it worked without problems.
Oh yes - one more thing: I used a tikz graph, and the "background":
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,backgrounds}
Elsevier did not like the "background" option (probably not available for
texLive 2009?) so I used
the pdf created for the preview of the tikz graph instead of the actual tikz
code.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
>> I needed no fine tuning of the TeX file, only had to add some
>> Elsevier-specific lines of TeX
>> code.
>
> Which ones were they? I followet the elsevier template, and got (hopefully)
> everything in.
>
> One thing: they wanted double line spacing, while the option "review" for the
> document class
> only gives 1.5 line spacing - so this needed to be changed.
>
> I think this information should go on the wiki - we should possibly have one
> section about
> submitting articles to journals, sorted by publisher, so that we can get that
> information
> collected.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>> Regards
>
>> Matthias
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Rainer M Krug Gesendet:
>> Dienstag, 12. Juni
>> 2012 15:52 An: David L. Johnson; Rich Shepard; Liviu Andronic; Steve Litt;
>> [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Preparing
>> Scientific paper
>> for submission as LaTeX (Elsevier...)
>
>> High everybody
>
>> thanks for your input - all of you were right and had some useful info.
>
>> One in particular (Liviu - with the LyX archive) helped to identify graphic
>> files which
>> needed to be included.
>
>> Important things I learned:
>
>> 1) Journals want flat file structure 2) only submit one .tex, otherwise the
>> system is
>> confused 3) include the bbl in the .tex - I think this was necessary, but
>> might have been
>> caused by two .tex files 4) It is very useful, to have a good LaTeX editor
>> to do the fine
>> tuning (I used kile)\ 5) tikz is very nice, but they seem to use an old
>> version. So I used
>> the pdf as created by LyX for the preview instead.
>
>> Overall, long winding road - but it is done now.
>
>> Thanks,
>
>> Rainer
>
>
>
>
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