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Originally Posted by mrmikel
To add to your misery, NO device fully supports any of the above.
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I'm very familiar with that type of thing. It's exactly like it was when web browsers first came out and weren't all on board with respect to abiding by standards either.
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Sigil is great program that handles many of the details for you, if you have an html file to feed it, or you can type in directly or paste in text.
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It IS most definitely quite the program but I have noticed lately that it does some things which make it unlikely that I will use it. It messes up my DOCTYPE and uses a structure that is not recommended by the standard or that lines up with the epub directory structure which I am using.
Plus it creates some files like the mimetype behind the scenes such that I can't see what it is doing until after it saves my epub and I can look inside it.
I am a detail person who likes control over every aspect of what I am doing if I can conveniently achieve that and don't generally like it when things are created or happen without my having any idea of what happened or where things went or came from.
If one uses Sigil it would appear that one must then stick to using Sigil to have things go as smoothly as possible.
I create content in markup (with some hand coded HTML), use pandoc to convert to whatever, and then place the resultant produced files (whether HTML for a web page, XHTML for epub, PDF, or whatever) in various directories. A script I am creating will Zip up the files into an EPUB so I won't even need something like Sigil (though I understand there is a script here that does that too...most likely for Windows though...I use Linux).
Carlos