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You can edit the CSS code in the Code View. Every style tag will be exported as a separate CSS file, and every separate CSS file loaded gets loaded as a style tag. I can't just use XHTML and CSS validators since the epub spec is a bit different from the vanilla versions. I plan on writing an epub checking library (kinda like epub-check, only in C++... and hopefully better). This is a very large sub-project so you won't see anything soon. Quote:
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The file-as attribute is already supported. If you type in a name with a comma ("Doe, John") that name will be directly written to the file-as attribute and the inverted form ("John Doe") will be written as the value. This works with imported books, too (the file-as attribute is copied to the Meta Editor). Quote:
I don't want to set anything automatically for the user. Although this could be user-selectable in an options screen. Make an issue for this. |
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08-03-2009, 07:39 AM | #77 | |
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You'll have to forgive me if this has already been answered, but I have issues running this alpha of Sigil:
Running on Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 - got libqt4-webkit 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.1 installed. Getting error message when I run Sigil: Quote:
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08-03-2009, 07:56 AM | #79 | |
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In the process of making an ebook, MobiCreator makes and sets aside the OPF file. It is left in the same folder as the html & image source files. TBH, you're already supporting OPF files. They're inside every Epub. P.S. The other reason I'm asking for this is I want to make an OPF file generator. |
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By the way. In dates it is possible to store only year or year and month information (not day), but it seems Sigil defaults to 01 when day or month are missing (i.e, "1950" is displayed as "01-01-1950"). I think that should be fixed (I know, I'll add an issue ) |
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08-03-2009, 08:11 AM | #82 | |
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http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/ Mobigen 6.2 build 43 (current version. On the future, whatever). You can download that mobigen command line app and have a look. It can easilly transform an OPF + (content files: xhtml, css, images...) into a mobipocket. You would do that by unzipping the OEBPS folder in the epub file, and then process the files with mobigen. It's not very hard to implement, i think altough it would only work in windows. BTW great job with the Chapter splitting thing. Now I'm going to use Sigil for splitting chapters of InDesign generated ePubs. Next step would be a feature to add chapters into the TOC? Cause I can't seem to see how could I do that with an InDesign generated file. Congratulations on your great work! |
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Maybe this could be added to the sigil home page or to the announcement at the top of this thread? Francis |
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You have to think of options in the form of "How am I going to present this to the user in a simple and usable way?". This is absolutely crucial, which unfortunately many OSS developers don't understand. The average user doesn't give a rat's ass about "date" elements and "event" attributes. He doesn't want to learn what those are, and he shouldn't have to. He is adding metadata. It is all being worked out for him in the background. This is also why books are loaded as a single flow and not a separate file. The user doesn't care that it's all actually a bunch of files, he wants to edit the book. He's used Word. He's used Open Office. He's used Book Designer. It's always a single flow because in his mind he's editing one book, the epub file. Yes, the power users are going to lose some of their flexibility. I'll do everything in my power to help these 5% of users if it doesn't negatively impact the user experience of the other 95%. You sound like you want to edit all of the XHTML, CSS, XPGT files etc. as separate files in an editor that would in the end just wrap everything up into an epub. That's great. But that's not what Sigil is. Not right now anyway. If something like this is added, it would be accessible by explicitly switching to the "advanced" GUI. I have no immediate plans for making this happen, although I would like to add it somewhere down the line. But not any time soon. There are more important issues to attend to, and they impact the other 95%, if not everyone. Quote:
Validating their input would be difficult at best. What format should they use? MM-DD-YYYY? DD-MM-YYYY? Dot's instead of dashes? What happens when the user types in "blabla"? Americans want to use their weird middle-endian date format and I don't want to force them or the rest of the world to one version. QDate automatically changes it's display according to the locale. My point with this is that enabling partial insertion of dates is more difficult than it seems and will have to wait until other issues are sorted out first. For now just use 1.1.YYYY. if you don't know the month or day. |
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