On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 10:35:44AM -0400, Alexander Dunlap wrote: > On Apr 5 2025, at 10:31 am, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 10:15:00AM -0400, Alexander Dunlap wrote: > > > On Apr 5 2025, at 9:55 am, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Alexander Dunlap wrote: > > > > > On Apr 5 2025, at 5:47 am, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:15:00AM +0200, Anders Ekberg via > > > > > > lyx-users wrote: > > > > > > > 5 apr. 2025 kl. 00:13 skrev Paul Verschueren > > > > > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Scott - Yes, absolutely definitely!!! > > > > > > > > Great idea! > > > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > > > From: lyx-users <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > > > > > > > > Scott Kostyshak > > > > > > > > Sent: 04 April 2025 23:09 > > > > > > > > To: LyX Users <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Subject: Export to an archive for arXiv submission? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone make submissions to https://arxiv.org/ ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I wonder if it would be useful to have an easy way to export to > > > > > > > > a .tar.gz, or zip, that is easily uploadable to arXiv. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Would this be useful to others? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > lyx-users mailing list > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Doesn’t the export to LyX Archive do exactly that? > > > > > > > /Anders > > > > > > > > > > > > Very similar, but LyX Archive includes a .lyx file. It is for > > > > > > sharing > > > > > > with someone who uses LyX. arXiv wants a .tex file that has nothing > > > > > > to > > > > > > do with LyX. > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, arXiv has some other requirements. I don't know it well, but I > > > > > > think a bbl needs to be included. We also have a script > > > > > > include_bib.py, > > > > > > which I think can be used to get it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Indeed hopefully the code in the LyX archive script and the > > > > > > include_bib > > > > > > script could be shared, since they already does the needed work of > > > > > > collecting the dependencies. > > > > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > The script https://github.com/djsutherland/arxiv-collector does an > > > > > excellent job of this for LaTeX files in my experience. > > > > > > > > Thanks, I didn't know about that and it indeed seems very useful! > > > > I wonder how it is able to get around the big biblatex issue, that is > > > > avoid this message: > > > > Package biblatex Warning: File '.bbl' is wrong format version > > > > From what I understood, I thought that if you use biblatex you have to > > > > use the same biblatex version that arXiv uses (e.g., currently whatever > > > > version is in TeX Live 2023 now). But now I'm wondering if I > > > > misunderstood something. > > > > > > > > > > I believe it just includes all of the necessary biblatex files in the > > > tarball, so it is not depending on the arXiv version of the biblatex > > > files at all. > > > > Interesting! On arXiv's docs > > (https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_tex.html#biblatex), they state: > > When uploading the .bbl file for biblatex, it must be compatible with > > the version of biblatex or Biber on the arXiv at the present time. If > > your .bbl for biblatex is not compatible then your submission will > > have errors. > > > > But maybe the point is that arxiv-collector doesn't upload a .bbl and > > works around it by putting it directly in the document or something > > along those lines. No matter how they achieve it, it sounds like a very > > useful feature. > > > > Scott > > It does include a bbl, but it also includes copies of all of the biblatex > style files, i.e. biblatex.sty, blx-case-expl3.sty, blx-compat.def, > blx-dm.def, english.lbx, standard.bbx, biblatex.cfg, biblatex.def, > numeric.cbx on the most recent upload I did. So the arXiv version of biblatex > is not used at all because it's shadowed by the version that is included with > the upload. > Alex
Perfect! It's very helpful to know these details and that it worked for you. Thanks for your explanations. I'm convinced now :). Scott
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