On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:04 AM <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.)
I have done that, too, as it's pretty sketchy to try to copy/paste the whole document (now I don't remember why, anymore; perhaps LyX would crash on my Windows?). > 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 think I understand in theory what you want to do, but wonder if it's useful or makes sense in practice. Every time I had a paper rejected from a journal, there were changes to be made for good reasons. That is, I never resubmitted the original manuscript to another venu without taking at least some of the feedback into consideration. 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? Child documents? See https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Multidoc#input-include - I've used this to reuse stand-alone problem statements inside exam documents (that latter of which have formatting requirements), but I never tried it in the context of an IEEE publication. I think it's going to depend on the formatting. The last three journal/conference papers I worked on were done in LaTeX because not enough of my co-authors appreciate LyX. I'm still keeping LyX for my course notes (like a book), where I'm the sole author.
