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Originally Posted by Hitch
@kiwidude:
I guess my perspective is different; every competent html editor (I mean the software, not the human operator) has a spell checker already in it. My work flow, no matter the source material, is pretty simple stuff; we do all the primary editing in NoteTab Pro, which is probably the best html editor available, IMHO. I don't use it for merging and splitting, myself; but it has a clip editor that could probably do something equivalent--we used it to write a "clip" that converts epubs into mobi-ready epubs to drop on MobiGen/KG to create fully-compliant mobis. So I won't say it doesn't have merge/split; I simply don't know if it does. We run spellcheck in it BEFORE we export cleaned html to Sigil. I just don't see Sigil as a workhorse tool at this time; it's more of a finishing tool, IMHO. I don't care if someone's using it for one book or 100; my point about PCRE was about making it more of a workhorse and less of a finishing tool.
Hitch
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I completly agree with HItch. The editor/regex provided with QT is simplistic and frustrating. Once ver 4.0 has the wrinkles ironed out, I'm a happy camper. Most of my work id done prior to Sigil. Having direct access to content.opf and toc.ncx is great.
I have approached John on the side with what could be the solution to this problem. An "EXTERNAL TOOLS" selection seems to me the obvious choice. NoteTab Pro (not quite as good as EditPad Pro
) and EditPad Lite/Pro have detailed Command Line calls to allow full communication with Sigil. The major addvantage to Edit Pad Lite is that it is free and is a great little html editor. Sigil would expose all tthe required parameters for the calls. All this would have to be worked out.
With a good html editor, a hyperlink editor is not needed.
The user could use his/her favorite Spell Checker.
Right clicking on an item in Images or the image in the document could pass the image to Photoshop, GIMP, or whatever.
Obviously, this not a simple few hour solution. But why reinvent the wheel?
Don't like what's there? Plug in your own.
