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Originally Posted by RHWright
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So, how is the learning curve on Sigil?...
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This sounds like you really have two questions; one about Sigil itself and one about "creating ebooks".
Sigil's learning curve is very easy. The program is very simple to use and works very well. It auto-creates the ePub file structure and provides easy interfaces for entering metadata and creating ToC entities. Its the additional CSS and XHTML learning curve that Sigil doesn't help with that prove to be most of the problem that Sigil users encounter.
Sigil falls massively short in some areas when compared to "program code editors" and apps like Dreamweaver which decend from such editors. Sigil has only a few toolbar buttons to perform basic formatting and its code editing screens (CSS and "code view" of xHTML) have none of the aids that provide "hints" for syntax when entering code like those found in Dreamweaver. If you want to insert an image at anything other than it's default size you have to know the syntax for the <image> tag, Sigil won't help you. The same goes for CSS editing, you have to know the syntax, or rely on an external source for the syntax info, as Sigil has none of the "auto-complete" or popup aids like those found is editors such as DW.