+1 on charleski
while I agree it's great that Sigil takes over all the tasks repetitive which you would have to keep an eye on when making whole epubs manually like epub specific zipping, not forgetting to insert the files in the required listings etc. It d
would be a great loss putting a lid over sourcecode manipulation (and I say this as
not savvy in any *ML or CSS)
this just because it
- helps in learning by doing when you see that code while you format in a WYSIWYG mode
- the source is the key when you ask somebody smarter than you about why your book does NOT look like you intended it to do.
- there will always be finetune opportunities or needs which NO GUI in the world can cover even if it became option-overloaded and non-intuitive like hell.
The lessons above always return - in case of maintenance of operating systems feel free to replace
sourcefiles with
command-line/shell work
If you always want to do it properly you will one day run across a problem which requires to do at least part of the work by hand.
And it's great that Sigil is a double-sided epub-wrench
keep that.