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Old 08-14-2013, 09:41 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
So how does this improve on simply running a book through calibre's epub to epub conversion - At 1st glance that already seems to do almost all of what you specified ?

why reinvent the wheel ?
Even if the conversion provides a lot of options, you have little control over what calibre actually does under the hood. In my experience converting epub -> epub almost always has unintended consequences and is not .

More importantly, the intention is to add functionality for simplifying handling css classes in a "style-like" way to Sigil, as it would make it more useful as an epub editor IMO. Other tools like calibre, Dreamweaver or even a custom-made script can probably also do these transformations in a "proper" DOM-based manner, but being able to to them in Sigil would simplify that workflow and hopefully be useful to a lot of people, not only me

My proposal is also just an idea, maybe a generalised interface to manipulate the DOM would be more flexible and useful in the general case, but I have no idea how it could/should be implemented.
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