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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Stop being so obtuse. What I'm saying is: there's likely to be a disconnect between "writing a book" and getting said book into epub form for quite some time yet. No matter how much you, or anybody else, wishes it were different. We just got authors (most of them anyway) to switch from the typewriter to the word processor on a computer. You don't believe any more than I do that they're going to switch en masse to a semi-wysiwyg html editor to do their writing.
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For the LOVE OF GOD!
Enough, enough,
enough already. Let me tell you something: of the 2,000+ authors that have come through my doors this past 4-5 years, do you know precisely--precisely--how many have been able to go back through a manuscript and "clean" it, if it had broken paragraphs, etc.? Meaning, were able to figure out HOW to use the pilcrow icon, and then remove the closing paragraph tags that were errantly placed? Come on...take a wild guess. 100? 200?
TWO.
Yup, TWO (2). That's how many. Replete with screenshots from me, video links, instructions....two.
And now there's some type of suggestion that magically, they're all gonna work in html or an html environment?
That is never going to happen. Authors will spend hours, if not days, trying to find their next new shiny "writing program," like LSBXE or Scrivener or whatever, based on how it keeps images, or a gallery, or what music it will play; not how much HTML they can work in. The "writing programs" out there all essentially use RTF, not HTML or Markup. This entire discussion is painfully ridiculous. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dismissive, but my "sampling" of ~2,000 authors just says that this is beyond wishful thinking. Authors do NOT want to think about what a paragraph is, or how it's created, or whether or not to use empty paragraphs to create a scene-break; they want to be utterly unhampered in their writing. Expecting them to learn html when they won't even learn something as simple as WORD is just....I don't have the words for it, pun intended. I mean, hear what I'm saying to you: most of them do not know how to use WORD correctly. Never mind Sigil. It's DAFT.
Hitch