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Originally Posted by Hitch
Katsunami:
Well, we all have ePUBpack, but that doesn't do the Sigil-style heavy lifting for you--the NCX and the OPF, which is the rather cool part. And with Sigil's newer features (the reports, the index linking, the clips), it's hard to say that simply packing an ePUB is the solution. It's of course invaluable; I use ePUBpack and ePUBTweak both, as needed. But neither does all the tedious internal stuff that is so incredibly time-saving with Sigil. To me, if you had to lose EVERYTHING in Sigil except 1-2 core components, keeping the NCX and OPF creation alone is what I consider core functionality.
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Yes, that is what the compiler-part of the EPUB packer would do. It would build the OPF and NXC as it goes, maybe only using a simple layout file to do it.
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The rest is great, but I think that most of the people who use Sigil do what we do-edit in another HTML editor, like NoteTabPro (although I personally have some weirdo problem with NTP 7.0), and then use Sigil for polishing the ePUB, make the NCX, make the OPF, add the meta, and bob's-yer-uncle, as they say here.
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Yes, if one needs to create a book from scratch, having Sigil make the OPF and NCX (and the TOC editor) are the core functionalities. I couldn't begin to do that by hand.