One would surely not be aware of any if they were not disclosed, now would they?
Well, Jean was the most likely editor who used them at OOoAuthors in order to get around a number of deficiencies with the master documents, mostly. The rub was that she rarely, if ever, disclosed them--unless somebody might tamper (remove) them inadvertently without realizing that they were "features" installed for some workaround or another.. Then, Jean might state that such-and-such was there for some workaround and that it should be left intact.
Other locations for some kludges might be on the title pages of the individual chapter files. Not disclosing them could "break" things, though, if other editors would work on such files without being aware of their presence.
A parallel in the computer-coding business is having a coder who might do things to enable "job security." However, I am not including Jean into that kind of group. I was coming up with hints and suggestions for some future tutorials, and disclosing workarounds was just one of those suggestions. So, I brought it up here.
In any event, I am not against the use of kludges, as they often are the only way to accomplish some objectives with non-compliant applications--like the earlier versions of the quite buggy master documents in OOo. But, to be professional, those kludges really must be disclosed whenever they are employed.
'Nuff said... I came across a bit of obsolete material recently while technical editing the "Working with Templates" chapter. One subsection refers to installing the Template Changer, which is now preinstalled in LO. So, I remedied that. There is another area where a nonexistent command is documented. So, that subsection needs rewriting, as I left it for another volunteer to finish. Should be easy to finish, though. That chapter had not been modified at all in over eight months, so it needed work.
Perhaps, some volunteer writers who work with templates, like Jean and others, might add some input to that chapter, as she is writing a book on the subject, I think. I added some simple marginal notes in the chapter about some very minor ways to beef up the chapter. Also, a version 3.4 screen capture is needed. I will let others do the screenshots.
Another area is: writers who do not follow the formatting rules concerning paragraph and character styles in the template exposition. Using manual overrides (direct formatting) is a no-no.
Gary