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
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> > > >
> > > > 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.
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