> On Aug 30, 2019, at 5:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > > Le 30/08/2019 à 14:03, list_em...@icloud.com a écrit : >> 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. > > One solution is to have a child document containing the paper itself and > different masters depending on the output you want. I do that for courses I > give to have both (foilTeX) slides and a two-column handout (based on > article) from the same source. > > JMarc
This looks like a good idea. I believe that master document settings override child settings as I’m sure you know. I’ll give it a try. Jerry