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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Hitch (and thus BookNook) prefers "Word-First" or "InDesign-First" workflow.
Like she said, if you use Styles properly, you can use Style Mapping and other tools to keep the files in sync (very helpful if authors need to make changes to the original document).
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No...we do some prelim cleanup in Word if it's Word-->eBook and then we do all the major cleanup in NoteTabPro/Epsilon (HTML). We only go INDD first when we have print.
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Finalize the Print, then derive all the other formats off that clean InDesign file. Now any sort of InDesign->EPUB workflow is much faster.
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Yeah.
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The biggest problem I see creep in is what I call the "bifurcation"—when the various formats get out of sync.
Once you split the files, you double/triple your workload if any errors/changes have to occur:
- Can you fix the equation on Page 15?
- There's a typo in "The brown cow is jumping over the moon." It should be a green cow, and the Earth.
- Can you put this image in instead?
- It should be copyright 2020, not 2019.
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Yes. The moment you split into other formats, it significantly increases the work.
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Once you split it into Print, EPUB/MOBI, HTML, Format X... now you have to correct it in each one. Instead of 1x amount of work, you have 3 or 4.
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Yup, what he said.
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Ugh, for my own sanity, just stop mentioning OpenOffice. It's 6+ years out of date, not updated, and withering away into dust.
LibreOffice is the true successor, and has tens of thousands of fixes/enhancements over all these years.
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I have an OO file in my shop RIGHT now and it's a huge complex mess. Grrrr....
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lol. Only just now they are pissing you off? They've been pissing me off forever! I refuse to touch any Adobe product with a thousand foot pole.
Side Note: And this "The Cloud" and "System as a Service" stuff is absolutely horrendous.
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For different reasons, sugah. You have a moral objection to all paid software. I'm mad at Adobe for taking me and others like me for granted.
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(One of the latest books I worked on, they used InDesign's "fantastic" Creative Cloud Stock Images... guess what, the IDML export had fully watermarked images in there... so I couldn't use those in the ebook either.)
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LOL, b/c the designer didn't license them! Not Adobe's fault on that front.
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Do you want this post to turn into a tome? 
(Grumble grumble, and ours was a unique case. It's possible, if only that Physics book wasn't needing insane equation alignment and unit notation. It broke all the "it should just work" tools!)
PS. But I promise, this stuff will be turned into future blog posts. 
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We're doing another LaTEX honker right now. It's all your damned fault. HA! (Indy--that's a person--found a method that actually isn't godawful, for LaTEX->HTML. Send me a note and I'll give you what I know.)
Hitch