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Originally Posted by ecbritz
I agree this has gone too far. If you look at the book you will see that it's actually quite thorough and accurate as far as it went, and shows that I am seriously interested and keen to learn eBook editing well. I never doubted for a minute that I must learn HTML coding and CSS. My original question about how to transfer files from one Sigil project to another was answered almost immediately. But the use of such files, if they originate in an ePub produced by writer2epub -- or similar program or add-on -- touched on a problem which elicited a barrage of reactions. I started laughing at myself and at the whole uproar. Most people are still afraid of having to learn some kind of computer programming. I know people who still regularly get hysterical when they use MS Word. It's all gone too far. But I HAVE learned a lot from this thread. If you read the experimental book, you will see it's full of stuff I learned right here, thanks to all. Shall we call this the end of this story?
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ecbritz:
It's a riot the first 20 or 30 or even 50 times you answer the question. Somewhere in the vicinity of the hundredth, it starts to pall. Unfortunately for you, most of the "regulars" (or, seriously, "irregulars") here have answered this question a LOT. And we've taken a lot of crap from people who say, "well, it says WYSIWYG on the Sigil site, so...(insert reason person should not have to learn html or css here)" (One of my personal grouses. I think we should nuke the WYSIWYG wording or phrasing altogether, but...hey.)
We also get a pretty good spate of requests from people saying, "Well, I told my
client that they could have such-and-such," and then the questioner asks the most fundamental question (e.g., how to make a paragraph with white space above it)--and we are faced with helping someone who
shouldn't be charging to make books, because s/he has no idea what s/he is doing. Some of us get cranky about that idea. (Wolfie even more than I.)
So, thus the responses you've received to date. Like families, we have shared history into which you've stepped. Good bad or indifferent. But still, really, the questions asked here really do belong on one of the other boards, for the sake of future questioners and searchers.
Hitch