[mhikl]

Template 001: Sigil Pure

I am starting this thread to get help for newbies (that’s me) with learning how to use Sigil. I had contacted Professor Sigil (Sigil Creator Sir Valloric) regarding the idea of Sigil Templates being helpful to newbies and he suggested I might start such a thread – members could decide if it was a good idea or not. (Talk about being thrown to the wolves. But, having a fair knowledge of the Canine language, complements of Sadie, where’s the fear?)

I have made a template (a simple epub with images and a little bit of text) that has taught me how to do all my work to make an ebook (epub) in Sigil – disclaimer – no xhtml or TextEdit app was endangered in the making of Template 001: Sigil Pure.

This is baby steps for me, I have been reminded by observing Puck that this is the easiest way (for me and he) to learn.

The Content of my Template (ebook)

Title: Sadie Saves the World
Plan & Procedure
Problems Observed
Content
1 Sadie Shines
2 Sadie Outs Riposaurus
3 Treachery Must Go
Originally, I included some nifty starters to my “3 Chapters” but elected to eject them as flamboyant and irrelevant to my central purpose. Each chapter contains only:
i) its title in Heading 1,
ii) an image (3 different sizes of same image) and
iii) a simple text line giving image’s specs.

It has taken me a long time to get this over-cooked baby out of the frying pan and to where I feel I can start this thread. I will post my history and notes on Template 001: Sigil Pure in my next post (post 2).

In a third post I will post the final epub (assuming one can post such a thing in a post.)

In a forth post I would include:

i) my 4 images,
ii) TextEdit with images (links would be the 4 images),
iii) TextEdit without images (“Image” substituted for the image icons) so it can be opened in xhmtl. (This would exclude the preambling Plans & Procedures and Problems Observed posted already. Just the simple ebook and its three simple chapters.)

But before I do what I just outlined, could knowledgeable members please advise me if this is not practical and that I’m thinking outside some crazed box from Pluto (my home planet, but that’s another story.) And if some kind Administrator finds this in time and sees “nutso” on the lose, please delete this episode and help me save face. (Something I have only learned about on this planet. It is regular, honourable and shameless to go about Pluto with one’s foot firmly planted in one’s mouth. That is why our current Prime Minister shows not the slightest touch of embarrassment for the things that venture from his lips. However, he was ejected from Pluto, I elected to emigrate.) There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s . . . )

Namaste,
mhikl