I am very new to LaTex. One reason I switched to it was to have an easy way to reformat my papers based on the templates provided by different publishers.
Then I don't know yet, laTex provide that convenience for me or not. For example Suppose I have a paper based on the laTex template by IEEE. Then I want to send it to another journal named IJCA, the IJCA give me their specific laTex template.
What is the easiest way to convert my paper (in IEEE format) to XXX format? Is there any automatic conversion tool for that? I just began to use WinEDT and can edit and compile latex files, what is the next step?
I give an example of two templates
IEEE:
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}
\IEEEauthorblockA{School of Electrical and\\Computer Engineering\\
Georgia Institute of Technology\\
Atlanta, Georgia 30332--0250\\
Email: http://www.michaelshell.org/contact.html}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{Homer Simpson}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Twentieth Century Fox\\
Springfield, USA\\
Email: homer@thesimpsons.com}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{James Kirk\\ and Montgomery Scott}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Starfleet Academy\\
San Francisco, California 96678-2391\\
Telephone: (800) 555--1212\\
Fax: (888) 555--1212}}
IJCA:
\author{
\large 1st Author \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 1st author's affiliation \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 1st line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 2nd line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 1st author's email address \\[-3pt]
\and
\large 2nd Author \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 2nd author's affiliation \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 1st line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 2nd line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 2nd author's email address \\[-3pt]
\and
\large 3rd Author \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 3rd author's affiliation \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 1st line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 2nd line of address \\[-3pt]
\normalsize 3rd author's email address \\[-3pt]
}
.......
\section{USING THE ijca Article CLASS FILE}
If the file \verb ijcaArticle.cls is not already in the appropriate system directory
for \LaTeX{} files, either arrange for it to be put there or copy
it to your working directory. The \verb ijcaArticle document class is implemented
as a complete class, not a document style option. In order to
use the \verb ijcaArticle document class, replace \verb article by \verb ijcaArticle in the
\verb \documentclass command at the beginning of your document:
\vskip 6pt
\begin{centering}
\verb \documentclass{article} \end{centering}
\vskip 6pt
replace by
\vskip 6pt
\verb \documentclass{ijcaArticle} \vskip 6pt
In general, the following standard document \verb style options should
{ \itshape not} be used with the {\footnotesize \itshape article} class file:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[(1)] \verb 10pt, \verb 11pt, \verb 12pt – unavailable;
\item[(2)] \verb twoside (no associated style file) – \verb twoside is the default;
\item[(3)] \verb fleqn, \verb leqno, \verb titlepage – should not be used;
\end{enumerate}
\section{Additional Document Style Options}
\label{sec:additional_doc}
%
I don't know much the latTex tags, then I prefer an automatic conversion tool which matches the tags and convert them to each other. At least does a preprocessing on them.
\documentclass{IEEEtrans}
to\documentclass{XXXtrans}
and adjust specific commands from one class to another:\IEEEkeywords
to\XXXkeywords
and similars. May be you'll have to adapt some formulas if one format uses two columns and the other only one. But it should be not too difficult.