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09-28-2014, 03:55 PM | #62 |
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I've looked high and low trying to find a program that works like Sigil, and have failed. Why bother to learn some program I don't like? I have learned how to use Sigil, I just haven't learned precisely what causes it to destroy hours of work.
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09-28-2014, 04:25 PM | #63 | |
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And if there is something missing, you can always build on either project and write patches to add in the functionality you need, which I should think would also be less work than writing your own project, plus you can earn peoples' undying thanks. Whatever. I just wanted to point out that a lack of patience does not suitably explain "Why bother to learn some program I don't like, when I can just write my own program from scratch" (!!!) absent some form of bias. Which is fine, I just think you are living in denial about something. |
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09-28-2014, 07:49 PM | #64 |
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Please this is not a calibre vs sigil thread!! I like both and have contributed code to both. I agree with JimmyG that an editing program that loses text should count as a bug. If I can ever figure out a way to recreate it and track it down, I will fix it. I have to go to extremes to get Sigil to lose text and it only ever lost the single bit of text with the double errors and kept everything else. But if he feels more at home with his own editor code, more power to him for writing something he needed. Again, I have no trouble with that. I just don't want this thread to devolve any further. It is supposed to be about a bug in Sigil. So can we please keep things on topic and move any discussions of calibre to the calibre forums.
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JimmyG can you try to recreate the problem you had where you lost text in Sigil? if so, document he exact steps you did to get this to happen and post the relevant file(s). If they aren't for public consumptions, PM KevinH to ask how to get him your file(s).
Since KevenH as offered to fix the problem, if you can help him recreate what you did, then maybe he can fix it. |
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I took a look at my program, and it's going to take a lot more work than I thought and I wasn't in the mood, so I started my next project with Sigil. I'm going to stay away from Book View, per everyone's suggestions, and see how it goes. I've got 95% of the writing done (with p tags only) so it's mainly copying, pasting, formatting, & proofing. (And checking every now and then to see if my files are complete.) If I run into any problems, I'll let you know, but here's hoping.... Last edited by JimmyG; 10-01-2014 at 08:27 PM. |
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When you use Book View, you use a word processor, so... it's been what, a whole week or two since you used a word processor??? |
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I wasn't really looking for suggestions. I probably should have ignored posts that weren't on point. But any excuse for not working is a good excuse. |
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I find that hard to believe, as a large portion of this thread was devoted to "well, why were you using Book View" and you seemed to feel that all error checking should be removed altogether...
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