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I'm not part of the book pros group, just, as my tag says, a book twiddler. I am 80% book view because I often start with wretched conversions with poor formatting and most of my time is spent just getting it half civilized.
Roger on Sigil constantly meddling with the text inserting its own styles and agree it should not be changing things by default as it does now.
If you could take the current WYSIWYG editor out and shoot it, I think there would be universal applause. It is so cranky. As a Windows person, I personally don't care about cross platform at all, but suspect those from the publishing industry might feel that Mac only might be better! There are so many things it just doesn't do correctly...my latest grrrrr is that you highlight a section of text in book view and select headings and it only does the first part if it is broken by a <br />. Its random selection of text as part of an operation drive me wild.
Although I don't have the skills to write plug ins, it does seem like to way to go to add features without making the program itself gigantic. Some things are needed only by a few, but for those the need is dire to deeply felt. One might be a plug in to address getting rid of page numbers. I know it can be done in regex, but for me it is a hobby thing....repairing industrial electronics is my work thing and enough of a challenge that I don't want to have learn regex to do some fairly common things.
All that said, Sigil is so useful in working with epubs. You can start with junk and end up with something useful and with some real effort (which I seldom do) end up with something great.
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