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Originally Posted by JimLL
Pressing the save button gets me an error saying HTML cannot be saved.
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Yes--because Sigil does NOT save html. If you are determined to "only" work in html, then you should be using a plain old html editor, doing your html work in that, and then importing your html into Sigil. Sigil is not an "html" editor; it is an ePUB creation tool that ONLY saves ePUBs. This means nothing more than you have to save it ONCE, as an ePUB, and then continue on, hitting save whenever you wish.
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The only thing a mouse cluck away is epub, apparently one of the lowest level ebook formats around and it tends to lose stuff I want kept. Sigil needs an HTML save. Epub is not the base of ebooks - HTML is.
Of course it is possible to do an HTML save if you have time to highlight endless pages of it and save it to a file. Autosave IS needed.
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Actually, xhtml is the "basis" of ePUBS. Again, if you are, for some inexplicable reason, bound and determined to "only" work in html, instead of tweaking your xhtml in Sigil, then use something designed for it, like NoteTabPro, which is simple, elegant, and designed for the purpose, and has extensive additional clip functionality that should not be underestimated. You seem to think that by saving your basic file as an ePUB, you're crossing some Rubicon from whence you can't return, even though ePUB is your goal. What you're asking for is a fundamental change (guys: he's not asking for AUTOSAVE, per se; he's asking for AUTOSAVE AS HTML, not the same thing, as we all know) in how Sigil works. "Auto-save" has nothing to do with it; you're asking that Sigil save an input file AS HTML, instead of as an ePUB, and that, quite simply, is not what Sigil does. It's an ePUB-creation tool, not an html editor. I think you fundamentally misunderstand its intention and functionality, if you are trying to "save html" from within Sigil. You're making it unnecessarily hard on yourself.
Use a decent html editor like NTP, or a freebie, edit your html THERE, where you can save it as html and be happy, and use Sigil for what it's designed for: making ePUBs in xhtml. Coming on here and blasting Sigil for not autosaving in a format that is it not intended nor designed to save in the first places just seems a little counterproductive.
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