John, will do this off list.
el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone Xs On 3 Sep 2019, 03:50 +0200, John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com>, wrote: > 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