StyleBender

A Sigil Plugin

Manipulates html styles, inline styling and html attributes at block level

Requirements

Plugin Type: Edit

Minimum Sigil requirement: v0.9.3 or higher

Python Requirements: Python 3.4+ (Bundled or External)

OS Requirements: Windows 7, 8, 10 only

Current Version: "0.1.0"

*** Tested on Windows 7, 8 & 10 only ***

*** Untested on OSX, Linux32 & Linux64 ***

Installation

* Select Manage Plugins from the Plugins menu. In the dialog box, select either the Bundled Python or the External Python(Python 3.4+ should be installed on your computer to run this plugin externally).

* Click Add Plugin and select StyleBender_vXXX.zip. This will load and install the plugin into Sigil, which you can then select and run using Plugins > Edit > StyleBender

Description

This is an edit plugin that gives you various options to move or remove html styles, inline styles and create stylesheets at block level. This plugin can also be used for for both epubs and imported html docs. If you use html docs with this plugin please ensure that they are derived only from the following doctypes: Word doc and docx(html filtered only), ODF(OO and LO docs only), GoogleDoc(as html, zipped) or AbiWord.

To load an html doc into Sigil, first open Sigil and go to Edit > Tools > Preferences > General Settings > Mend XHTML Source Code On: and set this to Open and then save it(you only have to do this once). Now you can load the html file in the normal way using File > Open(ensure File Types is set to html).

User Options(via dialog)

-- Move the html <style> section & all inline styling to new stylesheets (imported html only)

-- Move only the html <style> section to a new stylesheet (imported html only)

-- Move only the inline styling to a new stylesheet (imported html only)

-- Remove all html styles(classes) from the html

-- Remove all inline styling from the html

-- Remove all tag attributes from the html

Plugin Run

First load your epub or html doc into Sigil and then just run this plugin.

Comment

For best results I would also advise that you should always run the CustomCleanerPlus plugin before running the StyleBender plugin. Using the CustomCleanerPlus plugin will ensure that the html code is epub 2 compliant which will also help to greatly reduce validation errors further on down the line when you run Epubcheck. I specifically created these two plugins to help save some cleanup and formatting time for those folks who prefer creating their epub ebooks in raw html using Sigil.