My intention was to have a stable process were the "template designer" is using word/libreoffice/etc as a visual editor.

I just tested my "concept" with LibreOffice, it's doing the job, except....

... sometimes intermittent <w:...> tags are injected into the placeholder, especially where the underscores are.

I have to manually mark them and choose "remove formatting" from the menu. I suppose it's word-break information.

(I can of course also correct it on the source level.)

So a manual correction is still necessary, if the translator throws errors.

HTH :)

Disclaimer: didn't try any other apps like MS Word or Google docs.

UPDATE

here a sample of phantom tags included for a placeholder <___TEST___>

&lt;</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:r>
<w:rPr>
</w:rPr>
<w:t>
___TEST___&gt;
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