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I'm pretty happy with TeX & LaTeX + emacs with AucTeX & converting to other formats from there, but there's an appealing simplicity to your idea. I like your jjust-the-text ma'am approach. The one snag for me would be managing the directories. I know it would be easier for me to keep track of things with something like \input & \include and/or \section commands. But otherwise, i think it's a great idea for outputting to epub.
For a minimalistic approach to pdf/paper output, there must be a LaTeX template out there with some placeholders and/or comments in them, e.g., \author{YOUR NAME HERE}, \title{[TYPE YOUR TITLE HERE}, [Type Chapter 1 here] and so on. Compilation could be done through a script on one of the off-site tex compilers. Write in this file, double click on this icon & here's your pdf.
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