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John Everett · 06-02-2010, 05:36 AM

I am continuing a mammoth recompile and have now discovered an interesting feature in Sigil (bearing in mind I am recompiling stuff already done in Calibre).

A common abbreviation for 'et cetera' is '&c.' as well as 'etc.'

If you leave '&c.' in your source file, the parser in Sigil thinks this is the start of a Special Character (like — and so on), and promptly drops the rest of the file, since it is looking for a concluding semi-colon and a valid Special HTML Character.

Remedy: global replace of '&c.' by 'etc.' (I have just done a text where there were ten of these).

I am not raising a bug report about this, because it is easier to fix the 'feature' by getting the source clean to start with.

John

06-02-2010, 05:36 AM	#1
John Everett Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Apple iPad	HTML special characters - tip for the unwary I am continuing a mammoth recompile and have now discovered an interesting feature in Sigil (bearing in mind I am recompiling stuff already done in Calibre). A common abbreviation for 'et cetera' is '&c.' as well as 'etc.' If you leave '&c.' in your source file, the parser in Sigil thinks this is the start of a Special Character (like — and so on), and promptly drops the rest of the file, since it is looking for a concluding semi-colon and a valid Special HTML Character. Remedy: global replace of '&c.' by 'etc.' (I have just done a text where there were ten of these). I am not raising a bug report about this, because it is easier to fix the 'feature' by getting the source clean to start with. John