[QUOTE=teh603;2372478]Because a trained chimpanzee could follow the style guide?[quote]
Well, then, get the trained chimpanzees to format the Word document because I've seen too many cases where the formatted has problems.
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The other thing is that it would mean those of us who craft their own style sheets would have to arbitrarily set out style names after the ones in the Smashwords CSS. Instead of something like, "Normal," "Centered," and "Title."
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So you pick from a list of styles that may be named differently. And that would be a problem why? You would get used to it.
I still say hand-crafted ePub is better then Word > Calibre > ePub as that can and does lead to a number of issues. Just because it passes the validator does not mean it displays correctly. With a hand-crafted ePub, you have 100% control of what's going on. Any mistakes/gotchas are yours. It's much easier if you have a problem to come here and ask for help with an ePub then with a Word document. You get a error message in validation that you don't understand, chances are it's not going to be an easy thing to figure out in a Word document because it's not the actual code that's generating the actual error. So really, give up the Word documents and go for hand-crafted ePub.
Now what we need to do is get Smashwords to dump Word as a source, make it be ePub, use that ePub as the source for all the other formats, and dump PDF.