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Originally Posted by blackxacto
What is it with Calibre? I'm hitting T and no code view. Their is a tiny INSPECTOR window, but not the Code View I have seen. In Calibre, I've hit Command+T, Command+T+TAB, TAB, I stood on my head and hit T. No code view.
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Well, given that Calibre is really still simply a wonderful book catalog/library tool, and not a commercial production tool, it's not surprising that not everything is what is expected.
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What do ebook designer's use to create and to open ebooks. Calibre is so WANKY. And then Sigil is going away I see. What the heck is there to do this professionally?
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Most of us use Sigil, not Calibre. Some of the folks who post here will use Calibre with a script, to create a base ePUB from something like an odt file, a Word file, or a PDF, and then clean it up in Sigil. We don't use Calibre, in my shop, for other than cataloguing; if we need a PDF converted, we use Abbyy, and then hand-clean the html, and thence to Sigil.
Some book designers, who get paid for their work, use Jutoh or AWP. I suppose using AWP isn't bad if you can then subsequently fix the ePUB's HTML, and in that line of thought, I suppose the same can be said for Jutoh. Jutoh also has a MOBI creation function. I don't know how far Julian has taken the professional-level Jutoh, in terms of being able to make professional-type books, as opposed to something akin to Scrivener ePUB & Mobi-output.
Some use online tools, like Word2HTML, and code from there. Some even take shortcuts like uploading a Word file to NookPress, taking the resulting ePUB, and fixing it--also using Sigil. One way or the other, most people being paid to create books have Sigil used in their bag of tricks somewhere. I understand that some of the people on this forum are now playing with Calibre's editor, but from my (admittedly very quick) review, it's not yet Sigil.
This is actually a Sigil forum. Given that most of your questions focus on basic book-making, HTML, CSS, etc., I think you'd get more suitable help in the ePUB or Workshop forums. I'd also recommend that you take Pablo's tutorial on ePUB (in the Wiki), and the basic HTML/CSS classes on W3schools, so that you can come to terms with some of the fundamentals about which you are asking. Most of what you're asking about really has nothing to do with Sigil itself.
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