Formatting an entire book with LibreOffice, what's it like?

Tolkem

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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice! :)

I just read this article https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/06/formatting-entire-book-with-libreoffice.html and thought of sharing here, maybe someone may find this info useful and helpful. An excerpt:
The unfortunate thing about LibreOffice (which it inherits from MS Word compatibility) is that there is a "correct" way to use it which is the exact opposite way of how people instinctively want to use it. The proper way is to use styles for everything as opposed to applying fonts, sizes, spacing et al by hand. In practice every time I am given a Word document I check how it has been formatted. I have never seen a single document in the wild that would have gotten this right. Even something as simple as chapter indentation is almost always done with spaces.
 

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