I am discovering that I do things very differently to most folk who migrated over from LJ.
As in, I HTML my LJ/DW entries as I type them and don't use the RTF, but I write my stories in a word processer and have either a) run a macro to add HTML, b) let the site work their conversion magic on it. Even ff.net (by the time I started using it, which I think was pretty late) had the ability to convert my uploaded word file to the correct bold and italics. AO3, I barely think about it, although I check the finished document before I actually post.
This probably comes back to me being lazy-ass: if I don't have to do the html coding work, why should I bother? So long as it looks okay (and, frankly, apart from occasionally having to set things to right-justified, or fix endless <span> tags, and maybe set up 'texting' with a monospaced font, it generally does), I'm good.
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As in, I HTML my LJ/DW entries as I type them and don't use the RTF, but I write my stories in a word processer and have either a) run a macro to add HTML, b) let the site work their conversion magic on it. Even ff.net (by the time I started using it, which I think was pretty late) had the ability to convert my uploaded word file to the correct bold and italics. AO3, I barely think about it, although I check the finished document before I actually post.
This probably comes back to me being lazy-ass: if I don't have to do the html coding work, why should I bother? So long as it looks okay (and, frankly, apart from occasionally having to set things to right-justified, or fix endless <span> tags, and maybe set up 'texting' with a monospaced font, it generally does), I'm good.