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Originally Posted by radius
Hi Authorspeak. I can completely understand why you want that capability to be in Sigil, but I think it is a very difficult programming problem. Remember that Sigil is a cross-platform application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, all of which have different cut and paste behaviours.
Not only that, even if you could keep the formatting, there is no way for Sigil to guess at semantic content (is this bit of text bold and large because it is a title? what level of title? etc) so you would have to patch up the styles by hand anyway.
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This is an important distinction that is completely lost on (new-to-ebooks) people who try to use Sigil to create ePUBS (or any program to create ePUBs, for that matter);
that formatting isn't simply what something looks like; your first consideration has to be what something IS. That in HTML, from does indeed follow function.
As my earliest ePUB mentor taught me, "think about what something IS, not what it LOOKS like," and you'll never go wrong. Or, at least, you won't go FAR wrong.
I think Authorspeak would be happier with Scrivener, or Jutoh; possibly AWP, given the font-formatting issue of which s/he speaks.
FWIW,
Hitch