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roger64 · 02-20-2014, 12:28 AM

Hi

The calibre editor, launched after Sigil's development has been stalled, has made very quick progresses.

Sigil is still the best for some missing features in calibre's editor: the "saved searches" and "save clips" are very useful. The spellchecking is wonderful. These things are currently missing in calibre's editor (v 1.2.4).

On the other hand, with the calibre's editor, the ability to add and subset fonts, the "compare", "check" and "beautify" features are very efficient and nice.

So, up to now, to enjoy the best of both worlds, you have to use both of them. And there is a pitfall for Linux users:

If you are using, like I was because it was the "latest" available binary Linux version from DiapDealer - that is the version 0.7.3 of Sigil -, and if you are using a lot of nbsp, then you'll realize that you have to make a choice between them. It's calibre OR sigil. There is the reason:

Calibre will suppress the DOCTYPEs and change the nbsp into their unicode - nice - equivalent. But, try to come back to Sigil for whatever reason, it will report the problems of the missing DOCTYPE and it will recreate all your missing nbsp. Not very nice.

For this reason, as long as calibre's editor has not reached parity on all features, and this may take a while, it would be very nice if Linux users could get a 0.7.4 version of Sigil's DiapDealer deb.

02-20-2014, 12:28 AM	#1
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,625 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Using Sigil and the calibre editor: DiapDealer's help needed Hi The calibre editor, launched after Sigil's development has been stalled, has made very quick progresses. Sigil is still the best for some missing features in calibre's editor: the "saved searches" and "save clips" are very useful. The spellchecking is wonderful. These things are currently missing in calibre's editor (v 1.2.4). On the other hand, with the calibre's editor, the ability to add and subset fonts, the "compare", "check" and "beautify" features are very efficient and nice. So, up to now, to enjoy the best of both worlds, you have to use both of them. And there is a pitfall for Linux users: If you are using, like I was because it was the "latest" available binary Linux version from DiapDealer - that is the version 0.7.3 of Sigil -, and if you are using a lot of nbsp, then you'll realize that you have to make a choice between them. It's calibre OR sigil. There is the reason: Calibre will suppress the DOCTYPEs and change the nbsp into their unicode - nice - equivalent. But, try to come back to Sigil for whatever reason, it will report the problems of the missing DOCTYPE and it will recreate all your missing nbsp. Not very nice. For this reason, as long as calibre's editor has not reached parity on all features, and this may take a while, it would be very nice if Linux users could get a 0.7.4 version of Sigil's DiapDealer deb. Last edited by roger64; 02-20-2014 at 05:51 AM.