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@Quoth: Good to meet someone who’s also in the business for a while. I am since 1979, an in IT since 1973 or so. And you wouldn’t believe how many authors can’t use LO Writer or Word, will never learn styles, just get distracted by the zillion functions these have, and just mess everything up.
In book production (novel mostly, agreed), we usually had to strip these "documents" down to plain text, and manually redo whatever was intended (it isn’t that much).
You have some valid points though, like using styles (!) and probably LO for a little more elaborate documents. Then again EPUB are a reflowing format (usually), with many user overrides, so many of the things people try to do are pointless anyway. Non-fiction is something else, of course. And academic writing.
The advent of self-publishing brought some few interesting products, but much much more junk. Sadly, not many want to learn anymore, just build self-esteem or piles of money. Let them click along…
Novelists? Please use Markdown or even plain text. Believe me. The beauty is in content, not in fancy presentation. We can do that, too, of course.
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