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Originally Posted by Evil Overlord
I downloaded several hundred free e-books. Many of them have less than perfect formatting or OCR (it seems) conversion. I'd like to fix these.
Sigil seems to be a great program for building ePUBs, but I'm finding it awkward for basic editing. For example, finding typos, spotting incorrect paragraph breaks, etc. The manual doesn't seem to answer my questions.
I'm not expert enough on CSS (yet) to take full advantage of that tool. I've tried pasting text into Word to edit, then pasting back, but that seems to mess with the formatting.
1. Is there a better way to fix errors and ensure consistent formatting? e.g., a more user-friendly editor.
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IMHO No!
GIGO
Arnold from Webwrites (older Baen Webscriptsions), used a simple Stylesheet with ~50 lines that covered most simple cases nicely.
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2. The drop-down style menu seems to offer only a few built-in styles. Is there a way to get it to reflect all the styles in the CSS?
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They already are
All the
default styles in the stylesheet are shown here:
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there are no defaults)
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3. How can I learn what the built-in Sigil CSS definitions are?
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There are None built in.
Sigil constructs SGC-# styles in line as used.
the same code does not apply to all pages (unless you perform exactly the same styling operations in exactly the same order
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All SGC-4 means is: that it was the 4th combination of styling used upon that page.