Automatic cleaning by Sigil

roger64 · 03-17-2011, 09:58 AM

Hi

I have been an occasional user of Sigil Linux for some time and have stuck to a portable 0.24 version which provides me what I need.

I had recently on the French forum to stand for Sigil which was accused by one Atlantis user of "destroying agressively files", causing "fatal errors" on a iPad, mishandling superscript tags and so on.... Of course, this was only talk, not ONE file was shown to prove it, but FUD is spreading this way. AFAIK, Atlantis produces html files only.

I think this may be related to a misunderstood behaviour of Sigil which use html Tidy to automatically correct unclean html files. For example, I know that italic, bold and superscript tags are being replaced by "span sgc" somethings.

Of course if they produced first clean xhtml files, they would experience no changes and there would be no misunderstanding. But as this will probably not happen this century, could you point on any information documenting the kind of automatic changes Sigil/Tidy provides ?

I've read you planned to add a ON/OFF switch button for Tidy. Which version of Sigil has it? Where can we download 0.4 beta?

Sorry for all these questions. I will translate your reply in French on the same forum.

Again thanks for Sigil.

theducks · 03-17-2011, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roger64

I've read you planned to add a ON/OFF switch button for Tidy. Which version of Sigil has it? Where can we download 0.4 beta?

Sorry for all these questions. I will translate your reply in French on the same forum.

Again thanks for Sigil.

The current version (3.4) has the 'Tidy' switch'.
The Standard Version, download location is http://code.google.com/p/sigil/downloads/list

roger64 · 03-17-2011, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

The current version (3.4) has the 'Tidy' switch'.
The Standard Version, download location is http://code.google.com/p/sigil/downloads/list

Thanks for your reply. I do not see the 0.4 beta there.

theducks · 03-17-2011, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roger64

Thanks for your reply. I do not see the 0.4 beta there.

The swithch is in the CURRENT VERSION, not beta version

roger64 · 03-17-2011, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

The swithch is in the CURRENT VERSION, not beta version

This I understood. As I change version every second year, I wanted to do a quantum leap forward

I had a look at the Tidy doc... Too technical for me... Frightening
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html

Toxaris · 03-17-2011, 04:20 PM

The beta for 0.4 will be available between 2 weeks and 4 months I guess. Valloric takes his time, but delivers!

roger64 · 03-17-2011, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Toxaris

The beta for 0.4 will be available between 2 weeks and 4 months I guess. Valloric takes his time, but delivers!

Thanks. I had read an announce of it and had thought it was donwloadable. Summer is a perfect time for change though...

I made my point. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=82

I've never been annoyed by Tidy. But now, some poisoned tongues will have to just clean their own mess and forget to accuse Sigil of producing it. If only for this reason, this switch is very useful...

NB: About your signature, DRM is the visa thing?

Toxaris · 03-18-2011, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by roger64

NB: About your signature, DRM is the visa thing?

No, DRM is an expired passport and no money to buy a new one...

03-17-2011, 09:58 AM	#1
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,608 Karma: 3000161 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Automatic cleaning by Sigil Hi I have been an occasional user of Sigil Linux for some time and have stuck to a portable 0.24 version which provides me what I need. I had recently on the French forum to stand for Sigil which was accused by one Atlantis user of "destroying agressively files", causing "fatal errors" on a iPad, mishandling superscript tags and so on.... Of course, this was only talk, not ONE file was shown to prove it, but FUD is spreading this way. AFAIK, Atlantis produces html files only. I think this may be related to a misunderstood behaviour of Sigil which use html Tidy to automatically correct unclean html files. For example, I know that italic, bold and superscript tags are being replaced by "span sgc" somethings. Of course if they produced first clean xhtml files, they would experience no changes and there would be no misunderstanding. But as this will probably not happen this century, could you point on any information documenting the kind of automatic changes Sigil/Tidy provides ? I've read you planned to add a ON/OFF switch button for Tidy. Which version of Sigil has it? Where can we download 0.4 beta? Sorry for all these questions. I will translate your reply in French on the same forum. Again thanks for Sigil. Last edited by roger64; 03-17-2011 at 10:12 AM.

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