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bobcdy · 12-19-2010, 04:34 PM

I really appreciate having Sigil for epub creation, and would find life without it much more difficult when trying to create epub. Thanks Valloric, for a fine job, but please do something about tidy or its equivalent.

The last version of Sigil is greatly improved in that tidy is restricted so it doens't cause so many glaring errors when the careless user makes a mistake. However, it or something is still at work doing its helpful best to create more work for the user.

I noticed in marking italics with I forgot to end an italic section with the . OK, I expected that correcting that mistake would be the end of the problem of the entire text being in italics until the end of the .xhtml containing file. WRONG. Sigil had helped me by adding at the beginning of every paragraph with a at the end of every paragraph. Thus to correct my error, it was necessary to remove all those extra and 

Why does Sigil insist on helping me so abundantly with my html code? I realize I often make mistakes, but with most html editors such as UltraEdit the program doesn't help me with my errors except by not having the proper colors in the text after an error. Is it possible to COMPLETELY turn off error checking and substitute something such as a notice of an error, or a color change, or even letting the epub author find the error on his/her own?

12-19-2010, 04:34 PM	#1
bobcdy Fanatic Posts: 527 Karma: 1048576 Join Date: May 2009 Device: bebook; prs-950; nook simple touch; HTC Jetstream tablet	tidy still helping me - sigh... I really appreciate having Sigil for epub creation, and would find life without it much more difficult when trying to create epub. Thanks Valloric, for a fine job, but please do something about tidy or its equivalent. The last version of Sigil is greatly improved in that tidy is restricted so it doens't cause so many glaring errors when the careless user makes a mistake. However, it or something is still at work doing its helpful best to create more work for the user. I noticed in marking italics with <i> I forgot to end an italic section with the </i>. OK, I expected that correcting that mistake would be the end of the problem of the entire text being in italics until the end of the .xhtml containing file. WRONG. Sigil had helped me by adding <i> at the beginning of every paragraph with a </i> at the end of every paragraph. Thus to correct my error, it was necessary to remove all those extra <i> and </i> Why does Sigil insist on helping me so abundantly with my html code? I realize I often make mistakes, but with most html editors such as UltraEdit the program doesn't help me with my errors except by not having the proper colors in the text after an error. Is it possible to COMPLETELY turn off error checking and substitute something such as a notice of an error, or a color change, or even letting the epub author find the error on his/her own?