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arspr · 12-03-2013, 03:57 PM

First of all

Sigil is nearly dead and you set up a similar tool inside Calibre in just two months!!!, which even in an early WIP state seems just great

But you ask for opinions/detected bugs, so here I go

. I've just started playing with it so these are going to be just first impressions. As it is completely expected, welcomed and logical, please feel ABSOLUTELY FREE to ignore whatever stupid things I say.

Please add the "Count All" button Sigil has in the search tool bar. (I know it's in the Search menu, but a direct access in the tool bar would be great).
As an important difference with Sigil, Calibre's tool supports any kind of internal folder structure. But you don't actually show it in the files browser. You just see the epub contents but you don't know and you cannot manage how they are stored. Because of this behaviour I suppose you need some kind of additional tool like a "folders" browser. Or maybe the ability to switch between sorting by type (as it currently works) or by folder location (with ability to drag and drop files between folders). Of course, changing a file location should automatically update every single reference to the file in htmls, content.opf and/or toc.ncx.
A pretty stupid little thing. How do you start a brand new book?
I do like to see the inspector. But it is always closed when you exit the editor. Is it feasible to remember the last layout of windows?
Is it possible to sync position between editor, preview AND inspector?
I do miss some useful tools from Sigil (but there's really no hurry in adding them, isn't there?). The more important IMO are ToC viewer (I do really think it is a nearly must have), links tool, metadata editor, Flightcrew validator, Delete unused CSS styles/media files and reports.
Another one I really miss is the "link to CSS style" feature. You have already said that it can be a tricky issue as it can have several matches, but it is normally a really useful feature.

Nevertheless, as I said at the beginning if I hadn't seen what you have already achieved I wouldn't have believed it possible...

EDITED.

Two possible bugs I've detected after Beautifying a file:

The html file has been changed as expected but I still get the Saved message in the lower right corner. Is it a bug? or what's the meaning of that Saved? I've checked that if I exit without explicitly saving, NO saves are actually made.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> has disappeared. Is that behaviour right?

12-03-2013, 03:57 PM	#173
arspr Dead account. Bye Posts: 587 Karma: 668244 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: none	First of all Sigil is nearly dead and you set up a similar tool inside Calibre in just *two months!!!, which even in an early WIP state seems just great But you ask for opinions/detected bugs, so here I go . I've just started playing with it so these are going to be just first impressions. As it is completely expected, welcomed and logical, please feel ABSOLUTELY FREE* to ignore whatever stupid things I say. Please add the "Count All" button Sigil has in the search tool bar. (I know it's in the Search menu, but a direct access in the tool bar would be great). As an important difference with Sigil, Calibre's tool supports any kind of internal folder structure. But you don't actually show it in the files browser. You just see the epub contents but you don't know and you cannot manage how they are stored. Because of this behaviour I suppose you need some kind of additional tool like a "folders" browser. Or maybe the ability to switch between sorting by type (as it currently works) or by folder location (with ability to drag and drop files between folders). Of course, changing a file location should automatically update every single reference to the file in htmls, content.opf and/or toc.ncx. A pretty stupid little thing. How do you start a brand new book? I do like to see the inspector. But it is always closed when you exit the editor. Is it feasible to remember the last layout of windows? Is it possible to sync position between editor, preview AND inspector? I do miss some useful tools from Sigil (but there's really no hurry in adding them, isn't there?). The more important IMO are ToC viewer (I do really think it is a nearly must have), links tool, metadata editor, Flightcrew validator, Delete unused CSS styles/media files and reports. Another one I really miss is the "link to CSS style" feature. You have already said that it can be a tricky issue as it can have several matches, but it is normally a really useful feature. Nevertheless, as I said at the beginning if I hadn't seen what you have already achieved I wouldn't have believed it possible... EDITED. Two possible bugs I've detected after Beautifying a file: The html file has been changed as expected but I still get the Saved message in the lower right corner. Is it a bug? or what's the meaning of that Saved? I've checked that if I exit without explicitly saving, NO saves are actually made. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> has disappeared. Is that behaviour right? Last edited by arspr; 12-03-2013 at 04:10 PM. Reason: Two possible bugs