[kacir]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

Having said all that "keep it simple" is not good advice, imho.

I was referring to KISS principle in the context of ordinary word users benefiting from the style guide carved in stone and hung above the monitor ;-)
You can do pretty complicated things and documents with word, but you should always use the most elegant and most simple means to achieve this or that effect. Like well defined styles.

Originally Posted by anamardoll

If my ePUB can and should do X, then Smashwords should not expect me to stop doing X just because Word doesn't support it.

I'm already angry that ePUB supports two different sets of footnotes and Word does not, so all my footnotes were re-worked in the Smashwords version.

And the "break things up by chapter and screw up Ana's chapter heading pictures" is NOT a Word thing, it's a Crappy-Conversion thing.

As I said in one of my previous posts I do not think that making the use of MSWord mandatory was a good idea. And I said so before, just search for my posts mentioning Smashwords.
You should definitely be allowed option to submit your hand-tweaked format.

I think that from the beginning they knew that this wasn't the optimal solution, but it was solution that worked "well enough" for the majority of authors. This might be why they called their "THE Meatgrinder" in the first place.

Think about how stuff looks after it went through the real meat grinder


People must have used the same principle when naming Word processor. Just think about what a food processor does to food ;-)




Can't you simply include a link in that poorly formatted book(*) for download of better version from another server?

(*)formatted poorly due to the MSWord limitations, Meatgrinder limitations and due to the "lowest common denominator" simplification of supported features.