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Originally Posted by Toxaris
I agree Hitch. I use Calibre for my maintaining my library and I like it very much. In that it excels. I use Sigil for my epub creation and changing. It is really good for that. Conversions I do mainly by hand, but sometimes use Calibre if it is easier. I cleanup the result with Sigil. No problem, I know that beforehand and it is a deliberate choice at that moment.
Haven't looked at Jutoh for quite a while.
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Hi, Toxaris:
I think Jutoh is a perfectly decent, if not very
sophisticated, tool, for people to use to make an html document into epub, mobi and SW-formatted {something} fairly simply. If people are using Calibre to convert, and retaining those styles, then something like Jutoh might be a better fit. It has a Word-
like "styles" interface that an end-user type person can utilize to style the document/book as he sees fit. For non-professional converters, or people wanting to do their own individual book for uploading, it's probably a pretty good solution...you don't have to know CSS, which seems to be a major stumbling block with Sigil, for those who don't want to learn, and it even ePUBchecks.
I own a copy, mostly because I think I should keep up with these things, although I've not made a "live" book with it, I played with it a little to see how it works, and I think it's a really suitable end-user-type tool for making eBooks. It's not Sigil, but not everyone needs that granular control you get in production conversion. {shrug}.
But my point was, vis-a-vis the OP: I don't want Calibre's styles, I want my own. It's why I use Sigil. if you've properly defined your styles in the external ss, you don't get whapped with the Sigil Styles, and if you do, you can add whatever you forgot to the external ss and delete the Sigil Style at the head of the document.
So, my perspective and strongly-held viewpoint: let's leave well enough alone. Sounds like a purple bidet to me.
Hitch