09-24-2012, 11:01 AM | #61 |
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I've given 0.5.905 a whirl, and I must say that I like what I see
Thanks a lot for your effort with this one, it shows! I do have a few observations. I'm sorry if these suggestions have come up before, and I'm probably a bit late to the party with them, but here's a couple of thoughts: Code inspector: it's very helpful for viewing CSS and source, but for those of us with multiple monitors it would be even more helpful to be able to break it out in its own window, like you can do with the TOC and Book Browser panes. Code inspector: an inspection mode with automatic refresh would be great, I'm thinking of something like Firebug's inspect mode. This expands the source code view automatically and updates whatever you have selected in the right pane (Style, computed, and so on) on mouse-over without the user having to click the element to be inspected, and re-select inspect mode for a new element. This makes it easy to compare css for different elements. View Mode: A continuous reading mode would be very nice for scanning through a book, it can be cumbersome to open all files in succession. A way this might be implemented without too much changes (?) is to simply switch to the new file in the same tab if the user pages past the end or beginning of the current file. Alternatively a new tab could be opened for each file if it's not already open, and paging past the beginning of the file switches to the existing tab with the previous file. To me the former alternative seems more intuitive (and less resource-intensive). Note that I don't intend this to be a reader replacement, although it would probably work for that as well, but a quicker way of reviewing the whole book. Search: an option to search displayed content (as opposed to html source) would be useful. I suppose this is a rather large change, as you might have to render all html files in order to search through them? This search option should open the Book View. All in all, the beta brings lots of interesting features to the table. As crutledge mentions the "Open with..." option is pure gold. Again, thanks a lot |
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I'm apparently still confused about covers in sigil.
Has anyone posted a set of insrtructions or mini tutorial on the proper methods to insert the cover page? |
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Well, you could try the Sigil User's Guide tutorial section (not updated for the new beta but its the same in this version): Help->Tutorials...
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You guys have really done a remarkable job. Congratulations and thanks are in order. All too often added functionality means disrupting pre-existing workflows, but as far as I can tell you've more or less completely avoided that conflict.
There are a couple items that that I'm not sure qualify as bugs, but I might as well bring it up, anyway. In BV, hitting page down scrolls one screen from wherever the cursor is (ie treating the cursor as the top of the current screen), whereas in the past it scrolled one screen from the actual top of the screen, independent of the cursor's location. In CV, it retains the "One screen from top of screen" scrolling behavior of past versions. Obviously, the problem with the current BV behavior is that if the cursor is near the bottom of the screen, hitting page down, effectively makes you skip a whole screen. Re-reading this, I realize it isn't really coherent, but I can't figure out how to say it any better... The other issue is if you do a "Down" search for a string that is further up the page/screen in CV, the highlighted text appears at the top of the screen, rather than centering. Last edited by ElMiko; 09-24-2012 at 02:34 PM. |
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When I load the full html file into sigil and run Flight Crew no problems are found. When I press F6 to split the file and run Flight Crew I get the above message which tells me nothing, Any ideas on how I can run the down? |
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I just did the following with 0.5.905 (same as what I was doing before):
1) beginning with an epub with no cover image, first file in book browser is TitlePage.xhtml. 2) right-click on first file, "add blank section" from context menu. 3) drag "TitlePage.xhtml down to second file position, below new section (i.e. "Section0001.xhtml") 4) open Section0001.xhtml in book view, add image via toolbar icon; select proper image. NB: doing this in BV rather than CV gives a more complete <img> tag. 5) switch to code view and complete the img tag attributes as needed. 6) in book browser, rename Section0001.xhtml to CoverPage.xhtml; right click and add semantic "cover". 7) in book browser under images, right click the cover image, and add semantics "cover image". that should do it. In .opf file we have : Code:
... <meta name="cover" content="x9781606192382.jpg" /> ... <reference href="Text/CoverPage.xhtml" title="Cover" type="cover" /> |
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So we removed that kludge, and I had thought the new behaviour was ok until you pointed this out. It seems page down only works accurately if your cursor is at the top of the screen first. Grrrr. I will see if there is anything I can do about this though being Webkit it can be a royal pain. Quote:
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Could you provide the epub file and the exact position where you do the split so that we can test this? |
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2. Press F6 to split. Run Flight Crew edit: added the css. Last edited by crutledge; 09-25-2012 at 03:58 AM. |
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Hi folks
Great new features - having great fun with it? I have a small query though: In 05.902 if I inserted a blank line to create a space between paragraphs - in the code it came up as: <p class="calibre11"> </p> However in 05.905 if I do the same thing it now comes up as: <p class="calibre11"><br /></p> The reason I am querying this is that my reader (Aldiko) recognises <p class="calibre11"> </p> and shows a blank space, whereas it doesn't recognise <p class="calibre11"><br /></p> and the text is in one continuous block. Is there any way in 05.905 that I can insert <p class="calibre11"> </p>. Thanks |
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<content src="Text/#"/> Below, I split right after <h2 title="COVER"><img alt="" src="Images/cover.jpg" title="" /></h2> <hr class="sigilChapterBreak" /> in the HTML-file, and then the first part of the TOC looks like this: <navMap> <navPoint id="navPoint-1" playOrder="1"> <navLabel> <text>COVER</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/The%20Brass%20Bottle.htm"/> </navPoint> <navPoint id="navPoint-2" playOrder="2"> <navLabel> <text>TITLE PAGE</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/#"/> </navPoint> <navPoint id="navPoint-3" playOrder="3"> <navLabel> <text>TABLE of CONTENTS</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/#"/> </navPoint> <navPoint id="navPoint-4" playOrder="4"> <navLabel> <text>FRONTPIECE</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/#"/> </navPoint> <navPoint id="navPoint-5" playOrder="5"> <navLabel> <text>CHAPTER I HORACE VENTIMORE RECEIVES A COMMISSION</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/Section0001.xhtml#Ch_I"/> </navPoint> It all comes down to, that your Cover, Title Page, Table of Contents and frontpiece doesn't have an "id=". Even if Sigil shows the <h1>, <h2> etc. in the TOC window, it doesn'nt create the links (if they are not present), until you press "Generate Table of Contents" (the cover actually gets a link when splitting, but only to the file, not any id, because there isn't any.) Regards, Kim N. Jensen |
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