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Originally Posted by JimLL
Way out of line. I have a kindle with over 100 books and documents on it. I make up these documents for myself and for friends from 30 to 100 separate fragments, adding them together (one is 512 pages long) into one text document (and for ebooks through one html to Sigil. And believe it or not it is in one html within the epub. Fancy that!)
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Epubs with a single large HTML file won't open on many ebook readers.
If the purpose of your epub creation is to make files for Kindles... why not just get Mobipocket Creator and convert to that? Why bother making poorly-formatted epubs to convert to something else?
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And, oddly enough, considering something like (presently) 83 documents and hundreds of hours working on them, I'm interested in WORDS not html or epub components.
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Sigil is probably not the best program for someone just concerned with getting words into a reasonably-viewable format. It's designed with a lot of focus on being able to structure ePubs precisely, edit the metadata to exact requirements, and adjust the css to preferred formatting. If you just want a basically-readable file, with bold/italic/large headers/etc--basically, the formatting that mobi supports--Sigil's not a great program for that; it's got too many distractions from the base functions.
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Isn't that really, really strange!? An editor that is interested in words!? Really strange not to be a code mechanic.
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I'm not a code mechanic, but I've learned to use Sigil because I want embedded fonts, indented paragraphs, metadata control and chapters to be separate files within the ePub. If all I wanted was something readable, I'd use one of the random "convert to epub" programs floating around the web. If my end goal were a mobi file, I'd skip the "create epub" part entirely.
You seem to be getting frustrated because a program designed for fine detail work is a lousy basic-needs editor. You're not going to get much sympathy; it's like you're complaining that the power drill with the flex handle and adjustable speed makes a lousy icepick.
Yes, we can agree: Sigil is a fairly limited HTML editor. It lacks good navigation features; the WYSYWIG is sometimes glitchy; the save options are deliberately hampered in order to support other parts of epub design. Most of the rancor you encountered was people not understanding why you would pick Sigil as your design program, if those were the kinds of features that mattered to you.
I have no idea why you're making ebooks in Sigil if you want one-big-file for all the text. If you don't care about the TOC or font embedding or CSS formatting, there are better choices, that work well for what they do.
If you explained your end goal, people might be able to find you a better program for your needs. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for "a program that doesn't take ten hours of studying a complex manual to learn" or "a program that runs on my machine, which is configured [thusly]." But complaining that Sigil isn't doing what you want it to, when apparently what you want isn't what Sigil was designed to do, isn't going to win you any support--nor help you find a program that *does* do what you want.