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Old 07-30-2011, 07:44 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by JeremyR View Post
To me, Sigil is pretty close to being a word processor for e-books (epub anyway). And so a spell checker would be extremely handy...

Indeed, most of what I load into it isn't HTML to begin with, but plain text.

And beyond that, I guess if you are a whiz at HTML, it's no biggie to open up an epub in a HTML editor...but for the vast majority of people, they'd prefer something dedicated just for that, you know, something like Sigil?

(And the trouble with Jutoh? It's a commercial product and not that cheap...while Sigil is a great program, a huge part of its appeal is that it's free)
Are you serious? Jutoh is thirty-nine dollars. That's cheap in any reality, and for anyone who wants to make commercial ebooks, it's laughably cheap.

There's clearly a significant difference between DIY'ers and commercial interests. And I don't particularly care if Sigil is free; in fact, I'd prefer it if there was distinct development between a professional version and free version. Of course a huge part of Sigil's "appeal" is that it's free; people always like stuff that's FREE. And if enough people had actually donated to Sigil's development--which Valloric made clear was a problem, months ago--V probably wouldn't have felt compelled to find a new maintainer, either.

I'm particularly fond of Mohamed's wishlist. Can I get a pony, too?

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