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
