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When I first started in the industry, I worked in the documentation department of a small company. My boss had me write Windows Help files by hand before using tools like WinHelp / HTMLHelp. Years later I did much of the same thing when I dealt with generating .epub files from an editor.

There's something to be said for under-engineering, even if you're using higher-level frameworks. It gives you an idea of what the tools are doing under the hood, where they could possibly go wrong, and how errors can be fixed.

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A saying I heard once is that the difference between over-engineering and under-engineering is that you can fix under-engineering.