At Lazeeze's (and many others') recommendation, I have begun converting my odt files to HTML prior to submitting them. The three basic special formats -- italics, bold, and block indents -- all hold up in the transfer.
The other thing that transfers are my typos and edit slip-ups. Why they are so easy to spot after I post a story and not while I'm proofing it is just one of those mysteries of life, like what happens to make socks disappear in the laundry. So, yeah, I'm talking about Hard Trail. Ulh. Amateur Night.
About the edit goofs in Game Trail Chapter 11:
SPOILER ALERT (Deep background) As originally written, I had the K&ASR Board providing financial support to the junior colleges. But now, as I was prepping it for posting, I realized that just wasn't credible within the context of a looming financial crisis. At the same time, I decided the original austerity plan to start laying off employees in 1892, when business was still booming, was a really dumb idea, for the reasons cited in the story. The earlier version had adopted that plan.
To resolve the college funding, I had the other members of the executive committee -- Arnie, Pete, Dixie, and Raul -- pony up the money for operational costs to match Malik. Malik had originally pledged the half million for start-up capital axpenses and $50k a year for 3 years operting expenses, but the rest of it was all new.
Then, to damp the cognitive dissonance over Raul's early lay-off plan, I had Malik come up with an alternate plan to avoid immediate layoffs.
But I neglected to delete the old stuff so both old stuff and new stuff was mixed together, and some readers found that confusing. Go figure.
I think it's all fixed now, but frankly, I was balancing two books in my head at once, so there's no tellin' if everything is copacetic or not. I'll wait and see.