Re: Fwd: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

2019-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 

Le 03/09/2019 à 02:06, list_em...@icloud.com a écrit :

This looks like a good idea. I believe that master document settings override 
child settings as I’m sure you know. I’ll give it a try.


I put the common preamble settings in a preamble layout in the document.

Also, I use branches that are defined in one document but not the other.

JMarc

Fwd: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

2019-09-02 Thread list_email 


> On Aug 30, 2019, at 5:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  wrote:
> 
> Le 30/08/2019 à 14:03, list_em...@icloud.com a écrit :
>> 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.
> 
> One solution is to have a child document containing the paper itself and 
> different masters depending on the output you want. I do that for courses I 
> give to have both (foilTeX) slides and a two-column handout (based on 
> article) from the same source.
> 
> JMarc

This looks like a good idea. I believe that master document settings override 
child settings as I’m sure you know. I’ll give it a try.

Jerry

Fwd: How to keep versions of a paper in different formats

2019-09-02 Thread list_email 
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  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
>> 
>>