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Originally Posted by Ortep
You'll end up with dozens of different files that you have to edit separately.
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Sigil allows you to search and replace all html inside the epub at once.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
This morning I ran into an ePub that existed of 27 HTML/XHTML files. No CSS but all the fortmatting was done in the separate parts. Hurray!!!! Versatility above all
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If you don't have a css file do a epub to epub conversion in calibre and you will have a css file.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
Open File one, correct the 2cm wide margins en 3 cm bottom margins and save it. Open file two, correct the 2.5 cm margins...can leave the bottom margins intact because they are not set here, save file two....
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Doing a epub to epub conversion with the current version of calibre will also, in most cases, remove the 2cm right and left margins automatically.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
...save file 27, rebuild ePub. And hope I did not make an error on the way because I won't be able to see it in one go if it is somewere in part 17
In Sigil this would not be any easier, you will have to open 27 tabs and switch between them because all the different parts are treated separately
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Wrong, it would be easier. Once you have a css, Sigil allows you to adjust all pages at once via find and replace in code view. Even without having the css Sigil allows the find and replace of those repetitive edits in one move using code view and find and replace. Much simpler then dealing with 27 separate files.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
That is the reason why I want one single file and not 27 or 30 or 4
If Calibre was able to produce one big HTML file I simply could open one file and use a real WYSIWYG editor and make alle changes in one go.
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A single html file would have some pluses but for fine tuning a epub Sigil does allow you to treat all html as one.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
ePub is so versatile that anybody is able to produce a big pile of junk in 30 seconds.
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This is true but correcting the junk is easy in Sigil, since in code view Sigil allows the user to treat all files as on for regex use in find and replace.
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