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zafaran · 04-05-2011, 04:19 AM

This is a general addition to the thread since I've not had any issue yet with Sigil-0.4.0β3-Windows-Setup.exe, and I'm running it on both my desktop at home (Dell Optiplex dual-core pentium with 2 gigs of memory), and my traveling system that I use all the time both at home on wi-fi from my secured router, and away on both wi-fi and a tethered Blackberry with a data package since we have limited wi-fi availability locally (Dell Inspiron 1012 Netbook with Windows 7 with an Atom processor and 1 gig memory). This beta is *much* happier with limited system resources than the earlier versions I was using though I've plans on maxing out the memory on both machines as soon as I have the spare funds.

I've been producing ebooks in one form or another for going on a decade, and the Sigil-0.4.0β3 beta is dealing *very* nicely with how I normally work with my book design once I've done a first pass with NoteTab Pro to clean the files and do a few global search-and-replaces that I can't accomplish in Sigil (or pretty much anything else for that matter). Most of the files I've worked with to stay in practice while I've been home sick have been constructed on just about any crappy HTML editor you can name from the last 15 years (the web is a great resource for bad code sources to practice on), and there is a very great tendency for most or all of the code to be structured with BR tags dumped in a single massive container made of a single P tag or DIV, sometimes with additions of tables just to make more of a mess in the code. NoteTab Pro allows me to replace the BR tags with a string made of Closing P tag, 2 CR/LF codes, and the Opening P tag of the next paragraph which allows me to cleanly set headings for the TOC, and have human-readable code so I can skim the file(s) for any problems that need correction before I run validation on the cleaned code and bring it into Sigil to make the epub.

The ability to open the TOC and OPF files just to double check that the items have picked up correctly so I can go back to the headings and files and make adjustments if I need to is something I've been waiting for since you first mentioned that it was coming in a future version. *Thank you!*

Pat in North Carolina

04-05-2011, 04:19 AM	#71
zafaran Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 260 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle 3, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Torch	Love the new beta This is a general addition to the thread since I've not had any issue yet with Sigil-0.4.0β3-Windows-Setup.exe, and I'm running it on both my desktop at home (Dell Optiplex dual-core pentium with 2 gigs of memory), and my traveling system that I use all the time both at home on wi-fi from my secured router, and away on both wi-fi and a tethered Blackberry with a data package since we have limited wi-fi availability locally (Dell Inspiron 1012 Netbook with Windows 7 with an Atom processor and 1 gig memory). This beta is much happier with limited system resources than the earlier versions I was using though I've plans on maxing out the memory on both machines as soon as I have the spare funds. I've been producing ebooks in one form or another for going on a decade, and the Sigil-0.4.0β3 beta is dealing very nicely with how I normally work with my book design once I've done a first pass with NoteTab Pro to clean the files and do a few global search-and-replaces that I can't accomplish in Sigil (or pretty much anything else for that matter). Most of the files I've worked with to stay in practice while I've been home sick have been constructed on just about any crappy HTML editor you can name from the last 15 years (the web is a great resource for bad code sources to practice on), and there is a very great tendency for most or all of the code to be structured with BR tags dumped in a single massive container made of a single P tag or DIV, sometimes with additions of tables just to make more of a mess in the code. NoteTab Pro allows me to replace the BR tags with a string made of Closing P tag, 2 CR/LF codes, and the Opening P tag of the next paragraph which allows me to cleanly set headings for the TOC, and have human-readable code so I can skim the file(s) for any problems that need correction before I run validation on the cleaned code and bring it into Sigil to make the epub. The ability to open the TOC and OPF files just to double check that the items have picked up correctly so I can go back to the headings and files and make adjustments if I need to is something I've been waiting for since you first mentioned that it was coming in a future version. Thank you! Pat in North Carolina