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Old 03-12-2012, 02:05 PM   #1
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Please turn Tidy off by default

One thing that would r4eally help Sigil is if Tidy is turned off by default. CDATA styles Tidy creates are annoying and totally worthless. Styles belong in the CSS, not in every/almost every XML file. Can this be fixed so Tidy never does this or can Sigil be set so the default (when installed) is for Tidy to be off?
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One thing that would r4eally help Sigil is if Tidy is turned off by default. CDATA styles Tidy creates are annoying and totally worthless. Styles belong in the CSS, not in every/almost every XML file. Can this be fixed so Tidy never does this or can Sigil be set so the default (when installed) is for Tidy to be off?
Open Sigil (no book), make your status, toolbar layout changes, open TOC and Book Browser windows and Exit using the RED X
(For some reason, that saves the last state, where exiting via the file menu does not always work)
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Old 03-12-2012, 06:24 PM   #3
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One thing that would really help Sigil is if Tidy is turned off by default. CDATA styles Tidy creates are annoying and totally worthless.
Actually i didn't want to turn off all of tidy, but turning the automatic style-creation off by user-setting would be an great improvement.

It's most annoying is to have a "sgc-1=italic" in one file and a "sgc-1=bold" in an other file.

Of course using a central style-sheet for sgc-codes would be nice.

I hope, one of the developers reads this an put it on the wish-list. (Prio high )
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Old 03-12-2012, 09:38 PM   #4
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Open Sigil (no book), make your status, toolbar layout changes, open TOC and Book Browser windows and Exit using the RED X
(For some reason, that saves the last state, where exiting via the file menu does not always work)
I have done that for Sigil here on the desktop and laptop. But I want it done for everyone who uses Sigil. I've just recently started seeing ePub sold that were edited with Sigil and the XML styles that Tidy generates is a bother.

mmat1 says it very well...

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Actually i didn't want to turn off all of tidy, but turning the automatic style-creation off by user-setting would be an great improvement.

It's most annoying is to have a "sgc-1=italic" in one file and a "sgc-1=bold" in an other file.

Of course using a central style-sheet for sgc-codes would be nice.

I hope, one of the developers reads this an put it on the wish-list. (Prio high )
Turn off automatic style-creation and don't allow it back on.
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Old 03-12-2012, 10:17 PM   #5
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But I want it done for everyone who uses Sigil.
How charitable of you.
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Old 03-12-2012, 10:36 PM   #6
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How charitable of you.
All it does is take perfectly good code and makes it into not perfectly good code. I think it's a bug more then a feature.
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It's most annoying is to have a "sgc-1=italic" in one file and a "sgc-1=bold" in an other file.
Especially when you only want to have a paragraph in italic and its not worth to have a special class for this, the tidy generates always <p class="sgc-1>...</p> instead of just letting the <i> or <b> where it is.
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But I want it done for everyone who uses Sigil.
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Turn off automatic style-creation and don't allow it back on.
IMHO, it should:
  1. Be a user set preference (not a workaround/kluge to save previous state).
  2. Be off by default in a new installation.
  3. Should NEVER alter a newly opened document without presenting a warning dialog stating that it will be altering the document and giving the user a chance to cancel.
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Old 03-13-2012, 08:55 PM   #9
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I've just recently started seeing ePub sold that were edited with Sigil and the XML styles that Tidy generates is a bother.
A lot of other projects also use Tidy.

This is one of those things that I hear about vehemently from both sides. It stays until there is a plugin interface where you will have to run it manually. That said it's not going away and people will still use it even if it's not on by default.
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A lot of other projects also use Tidy.

This is one of those things that I hear about vehemently from both sides. It stays until there is a plugin interface where you will have to run it manually. That said it's not going away and people will still use it even if it's not on by default.
But can Tidy be modified or configured such that it doesn't create these style sheets in every XML? I don't want them. And it seems others don't want them as well.
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Personally, I would rather have a Sigil.css file rather than the varied styles that get spread bout the pages.
The current way make a global S&R very difficult... Read near impossible since I have seen some tags in chapters) HAVE SGC codes and others have none (and it is not obvious why that happened
At least with a central Sigil.CSS, the same code and my adjustments are simplified.
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Personally, I would rather have a Sigil.css file rather than the varied styles that get spread bout the pages.
What happens when you merge files with different styles on the same code ?

@user_none: I've seen several good ideas within this thread to make tidy / sigil css-creation a bit more user-friendly. Could you please consider to do something ?
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Personally, I would rather have a Sigil.css file rather than the varied styles that get spread bout the pages.
The current way make a global S&R very difficult... Read near impossible since I have seen some tags in chapters) HAVE SGC codes and others have none (and it is not obvious why that happened
At least with a central Sigil.CSS, the same code and my adjustments are simplified.
Why do we need a Sigil generated CSS when the code was perfectly fine before Tidy decided to mess with it?

<p class="tx"><i>This is my italicized paragraph.</i></p>

Becomes...

<p class="tx sgc-1">This is my italicized paragraph.</p>

There was nothing wrong with the original code. And I agree that it does make S/R difficult. So if you had a sigil.css, it would still be changing the class in my example. Still not good.

My solution is to keep Tidy off. But really, do we actually need Tidy to mess with the code? FlightCrew can tell us what's wrong and let us fix it. Tidy just (currently) gets in the way and messes up perfectly valid code.
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What happens when you merge files with different styles on the same code ?

@user_none: I've seen several good ideas within this thread to make tidy / sigil css-creation a bit more user-friendly. Could you please consider to do something ?
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SGC-1 on one page may be bold italic
SGC-1 on another may be underline
and SGC-2 is bold italic
As I see it. SGC codes are currently assigned: First need, First Assigned order on a per sheet basis
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I am a new user of Sigil, and have to agree that Tidy messes up with my own code that I spent time doing just right before opening it up in Sigil. Turning it off is not that difficult though once you are aware of the issue.
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