Adric writes:
i usually work and save in .RTF i find it tends to be more portable. but im not serious into desktop publishing or do a lot of fancy formatting.
What editor do you use for RTF? I haven't had much luck even finding decent RTF viewers on Linux, let alone editors. I wrote my last book in Markdown, edited in Emacs and previewed in ReText. Getting from Markdown to docx while preserving formatting and images turned out to be a several-step process, but I only needed that when I was ready to submit a chapter. It was better than trying to write while fighting with LibreOffice, and the resulting DOCX looked nice and apparently worked well enough on the publisher's end. But it sounded like the original poster needed fancier formatting than either Markdown or RTF can offer. Maybe it was even formatting that .ODT doesn't have, which might explain why saving as ODT then reading it back in didn't work. ...Akkana