> On Dec 22, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>
> On 12/22/20 4:58 AM, list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
>> The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has a series of
>> new ‘open” journals which use a different Tex format than other IEEE
>> journals.
>>
>> A superficial inspection shows that the main difference is that the abstract
>> and index terms span the entire width of the page whereas the traditional
>> format confines those elements to a column width in the two-column format.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a LyX layout or template for IEEE open journals?
>>
>> The IEEE LaTex templates are a few clicks away from this text, "IEEE article
>> templates,” on this page:
>> https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-journal-article/authoring-tools-and-templates/
>
> I do not know, but here's an easy experiment: Copy the IEEEtran.layout
> file into your local LyX layout directory (e.g., $HOME/.lyx/layouts/,
> for me). Now rename it to whatever the name of the new class file is and
> try importing one of their new LaTeX templates. If the changes are as
> minor as you suggest, that should just work. Possibly a few small tweaks
> will be needed, but someone who actually uses this layout will be best
> placed to do that.
>
> Riki
>
Thanks, Riki.
I’m about 79% clueless here so I probably did not do what you suggest.
First of all, the template folder that IEEE downloads to my computer for the
open journal papers is far less populated than the IEEEtran download. In fact,
it looks a little deficient to my uninformed eyes. Here is the directory
structure as downloaded:
IEEE-open-journal-template:
fig1.eps
fig1.pdf
open.aux
open.log
open.out
open.pdf
open.tex
No .bib files, no .bst, no .cls. Just a .tex and the PDF is already rendered.
You might recall that the IEEEtran download is more extensive. Here is its file
structure:
IEEETransactions_LaTeX 2:
IEEEtran:
bare_adv.tex
bare_conf_compsoc.tex
bare_conf.tex
bare_jrnl_compsoc.tex
bare_jrnl_comsoc.tex
bare_jrnl_transmag.tex
bare_jrnl.tex
changelog.txt
IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf
IEEEtran.cls
README
Transactions-Bibliography:
IEEEabrv.bib
IEEEexample.bib
IEEEfull.bib
IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf
IEEEtran.bst
IEEEtranN.bst
IEEEtranS.bst
IEEEtranSA.bst
IEEEtranSN.bst
README
Transactions-instructions-only.pdf
The IEEEtran.cls handles many contingencies and is over 6000 lines.
Without doing anything else, when I simply import the open.tex into LyX, the
document appears as a IEEE Transactions in Document -> Settings -> Document
Class. Also, the abstract and index terms parts appear _in_LyX_ as expected in
an IEEEtran setting, that is, they are visible and in bold font and properly
labeled as such, i.e., the IEEE’s traditional Abstract——- and Index terms——
(that’s supposed to be three dashes but my e-mail program keeps combining them
into em dashes.) This all seems extremely promising. However, when the PDF is
rendered, the Abstract and Index terms are missing, but the rest of the paper
looks OK as compared to the pre-rendered one that the IEEE includes with the
download.
Now, when I try to do as you suggest, I get a little fuzzy. Here’s what I did.
LyX on macOS stores the IEEEtran.layout file in the LyX application bundle
which is here:
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts/IEEEtran.layout
Next I copied the IEEEtran.layout file to the directory of the IEEE “open”
download because that is what opens in a file dialog when I click on “Local
Layout…” in Document Settings. I renamed it open.layout and tried again to
import the open.tex file. Same results all around. Maybe I didn’t copy the
IEEEtran.layout to the right place—I was a little unclear what you meant by
"your local LyX layout directory."
I can spend a little more time on this but I’m pretty much fumbling around but
am willing to fumble a bit more. I do have a deadline to get a paper submitted
so I will likely just use the IEEEtran template of LyX. Surely I’m not the only
one submitting using the old format. I do sort of know how to temporarily set
the columns to “one” and so I might fake it and submit a PDF that way in order
to get the abstract and index terms to appear across the whole page. If the
paper is accepted then I would hope that the problem would fall on someone else
to fix the format.
Jerry
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