ASME “text-only” submission in LaTeX We are submitting a journal paper to ASME Journals of Mechanisms and Robotics for the first time. The manuscript is prepared in LaTeX. In the final submission, it is required that we submit "text-only" file along with the final PDF.


  II. TEXT-ONLY FILE(S)
  
  
  The text-only file, Word or LaTex, should include the following items in order:
  
  
  1.1. paper title
  
  1.2. author(s) info (affiliation, address, email)
  
  1.3. abstract
  
  1.4. text: single column and double spaced
  
  1.5. reference section (ASME requires a numerical format, e.g., [1], 2, etc.)
  
  1.6. table caption list
  
  1.7. figure caption list
  
  1.8. tables, each on separate page
  
  1.9. footers  containing page number


ASME guidelines

If someone who has submitted to ASME before can answer what exactly are they expecting from LaTeX users, it shall be of great help. 


Are we just supposed to upload the LaTeX document as is and the requirement is more directed towards Word users?
Am I supposed to remove all the figures? That would mess up the references. In order to correct that I shall have to manually add the reference numbers to figure! I tried options such as How can I remove the figures from draft and gobbling the \includegraphics command, but in vain. 
Do I have to manually type the figure caption list? As deleting the figures would remove all the references and \listoffigures wouldn't work.
What exactly does this requirement mean?


  1.9. footers containing page number



Regards.
I contacted the ASME staff and they said 


  "You can submit the LaTeX files with the figures embedded and we will accommodate."


I guess that makes life easier and solves the problem.