Sigil v0.1.4 has been released. The ChangeLog (live version
here) for this release follows:
Quote:
Sigil v0.1.4 2009.10.08.
- SGF files are now associated with Sigil on Windows (issue #135)
- SGF files are now associated with Sigil on Mac OS X (issue #10)
- fixed issue with "Open With" OS actions not working on Macs (issue #111)
- provided more informative tooltips by following Word 2007 tooltip style (issue #64)
- the heading text can now be edited in the TOC Editor (issue #131)
- the Save As dialog now uses the current filename in the filename field (issue #18)
- views can now be zoomed (issue #44)
- Sigil no longer loads flow-specific CSS... this was causing more harm than good; loading
flow-specific CSS will be back in 0.2.0.
- implemented a NEW workaround for a webkit bug causing the first character of a heading
created after a chapter break to be displayed incorrectly (issue #78)
- fixed issue with TOC editor not resolving HTML entities (issue #125)
- fixed issue with Tidy changing case of attribute names (issue #120)
- Sigil will from now on check for a newer version on startup and present an informative
message if such a version is found (issue #67)
- made SGF importing MUCH faster (issue #119)
- provided a window icon on Linux
- providing binary installers for Windows AND LINUX (issue #6)
- further improved encoding detection for HTML import
- fixed graphical misalignment of controls in MetaEditor on Linux and Mac platforms
- fixed syntax highlighting for XPGT stylesheets
- fixed rare issue with SGF importing that displayed all body text underlined (issue #118)
- fixed display of the Sigil chapter break in Book View: the red double-line now
properly appears after all images (issue #117)
- added support for importing images referenced in SVG elements in HTML import
- HTML importing now defaults to a locale-aware codec if one is not detected in the HTML stream;
previously the fallback codec was UTF-8; this change should improve importing of old HTML
documents (issue #113)
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Highlights of this release have been bolded. The biggest feature are of course the new installers for Windows and Linux (both x86 and x64). No more building from source. Hopefully the Linux Gods will be appeased by this offering and stop sending me hatemail.
The SGF file format is now associated with Sigil on Windows and Mac (haven't had the time to do it for Linux, sorry). It also has a shiny new icon courtesy of pdurrant, who also compiled the Mac version of Sigil.
Also significant is the update checker that should check online for a newer version of Sigil every six hours and present a dialog informing the user if a newer version is found. It does
not automatically update your installation, it only informs.
The third major feature are the zooming operations for the Views. They can now be independently zoomed.
The issue a lot of people were encountering (the first character of a heading problem) should now finally be fixed. I've completely worked around the problematic Webkit code and replaced it with Javascript that should perform without problems.
As you may have noticed, this release took me a while. It's unfortunate, but it was sadly unavoidable. As a full time graduate student, free time for me is a rare luxury.
The next version of Sigil (0.1.5) should bring the oft-requested Search&Replace feature. Aside from a few things I didn't have time to include in this version, S&R is the one and only feature planned for the next release.
After that, I'm starting work on the
planned redesign. Sigil will transition from the single-flow editing approach where all XHTML files in an EPUB are grouped together into one editable whole to a multi-flow approach which enables the user to edit the files one by one. This will do wonders for memory and CPU consumption, and will also resolve the problems stemming from Sigil not rewriting conflicting CSS.