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
>
>
