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Originally Posted by cortman
@Katsunami- Sounds like an interesting project. I could very easily be tempted to try/use it.
I have to agree with you that someone who uses Word styles and produces terrifically formatted documents with it, and yet has no clue how to make a folder and drop a file in it sounds like an unlikely scenario.
Sounds like trolling to me, to be honest.
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If you think I was trolling, you have
grossly misunderstood what I wrote. You're conflating two completely different discussions, on different topics--one, the techiness of clients, and the other, whether or not Word itself creates viable HTML and CSS.
At NO time did I ever say that my clients generally "use[s] Word styles and produce[s] terrifically formatted documents with it," in fact,
I said the opposite. What I said to Nikki was about those very few clients who wanted to save money on their clean-up, or who actually wanted to learn. I can count those users on one hand, versus the more-than-2,000 clients we already have.
I spend the vast majority of my day doing everything from explaining where my clients can find their own downloads folders, to how to save from a browser, to what a "directory" IS, etc. So, you want to call my opnion
trolling, fine.
Until you spend
two hours on the phone with a client, as I did last Friday, because she kept insisting that her MOBI file was "opening up in ADE," and refused--REFUSED--to upload it to the KDP, because she had, somehow, screwed up her file associations, and thought that she could push the magic button that would "send" her file (replete with ADE, mind you) to the KDP to be put on sale, then really, I don't see where you get to decide that
I'M TROLLING.
I have at least a hundred examples like that. At LEAST.
I already wished Katsunami the best. I think for geeksters, it will be absolutely fine. I think for authors,
it will be about as popular as markdown is. if you folks haven't already learned by now that humans, 99.99% of the time, will do whatever's easiest, not what's BEST, and manage to rationalize the former over the latter, then there's nothing further I can say in this thread.
Hitch