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Originally Posted by Starson17
OK, I'll acknowledge the wording was perhaps too harsh. As usual, I was in a hurry and I regret if I stepped on your or anyone elses toes.
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Didn't step on my toes.
I have too much respect for your opinion/input to worry about my toes. Just pointing out there is more than one way to do things.
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The problem with chaining your conversions is that even with a good backup last night, you can lose all the work you did today in the last three conversions, none of which were backed up.
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This is true of nightly backups. Dropbox though backs up on the fly. Depending on where I'm working Dropbox will usually backup a saved epub within a minute of saving it.
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Multiple conversions on the same ebook can introduce lots of artifacts that won't appear with a single conversion. Another risk is when doing search and replace. You can destroy your work.
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All too true.
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It's true that you have to remember to delete the ORIGINAL_FORMAT if you use third party format tools to edit the converted format, but I find that easy to do, and I don't run same format conversions after I've done Sigil editing anyway.
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Sometimes I get lazy in my find and replace in Sigil and just replace X with H3 and do another conversion to ensure all H3 are the same class and size. Sometimes I insert the proper class up front.
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Originally Posted by Starson17
Of course, if you prefer the old method, that's fine, but in general I think new users should be encouraged to use the new default settings.
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In general you may be right.