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
>>
>>