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Originally Posted by Ortep
So it is not WYSIWYG, you will have to edit HTML code by hand.
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Never said it was.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. It doesn't work in 80% of the cases I get. And the fun part comes when it only works in chapters 1,2,3, 7, 9, 13 an the last one. Then you don't see it at first but it will show up during reading.
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This feature is new this week. I only had one chance to test it and in that one instance it worked. I'm surprised you already have so much experience with it.
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Release: 0.7.51 [25 Mar, 2011]
New Features
- Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph. This can be turned off via an option under Structure Detection, in case it removes margins that should have been kept.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
There you go: once you have a CSS And then I still have to edit the (x)html code by hand. I find it much more easy to to that with Notepad++. It has macros and a great syntax finder.
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I too like Notepad++.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
In Sigil I do not have 27 different files but 27 different tabs. One for each chapter. That is almost the same as opening 27 files in Notepad++ That wil allso give me 27 tabs in one window...And I am still 'coding' in HTML and that is not simply editting a file.
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For doing regex cleanups of existing epub files you only have to open up one file in code view to apply your changes to all of the html files.
But I'm not here in a calibre forum to further defend or clarify Sigil usage.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
The main argument is: There is no good WYSIWYG edit tool for ePub.
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If that's your main argument then it isn't a argument you have with me.
I don't create ePubs, only clean them up and Sigil is a quick way to make the changes I need.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
So I'm craving for a good ePub to HTML conversion tool. Also because the end goal for me (and all Kindle users) is not ePub. So why clean it up and make it usable in the first place?
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It looks like our goals are different since I have a Sony.
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Originally Posted by Ortep
Tip: The really easy and fast way to improve problematic ePub files is to open the ePub with something like Winrar or whatever archiver program you have. Find the css and simply delete it. You will lose all the formatting, but it was bad in the first place.
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If the ePub is that problematic you should throw it out. It's rare I ever have to open a ePub to clean it up, but when I do a few quick edits and I'm out of there. I usually don't have to mess with the CSS file.
Tweak ePub built into calibre will expand the ePub, when I do mess with the css file (previously for margins) I open it up with this method and do quick edits using Notepad++.