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Originally Posted by John123
Hi All,
I am complete newbie to this forum, so please be gentle 
I am a typesetter using very obscure typesetting software. I have tried using InDesign/Quark but my background is, initially, hot metal compositor then code driven phototypesetting machines from the very early '80s and all flavours of book production in between.
I am using an editor/typesetting program which has fairly powerful search and replace routines and would like to keep using it. However, on cutting and pasting (importing a txt file drops the hard returns??), into Sigil it doesn't use the HTML tags I've inserted. Viewing the epub file in Adobe Digital Editions doesn't use the tags either. However, when I view the file on a reading device, in my case an iPhone, the codes seem to work.
John. |
A real Hot metal typsetter... (I ran a Linotype in High School. hear a bell... Lift feet
)
If you are cutting and pasting HTML code (from outside Sigil):
1) you need to be in Code View (CV).
2) the corresponding stylesheet needs to have been imported or merged into the existing one. (Either works
)
I would not choose the current Sigil as a initial 'Production' tool (lack of spelling, easy font control...), But it is a Great 'touch-up' tool. Calibre is a Library
manager and format conversion tool, not a production creation tool.
Not a production guy here
IMHO start with a word processor that will produce clean-simple HTML (avoiding, EPUB non-compliant features) and stylesheets. Start from there Sigil (or Calibre) work best with (x)HTML