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Originally Posted by MalcolmRM
Thanks again to everyone. There are some fixes there that I'm sure will help. I'm having much less trouble now that I'm opening the Word2003 doc file in OpenOffice and saving in its version of filtered html. It's the only version that correctly converts those characters that require &#xxxx; entities; Word2003 leaves them as-is; Word14 seems to turn them into Wingdings.
My present problems still center round the fact that once an ebook is segmented into sections (Cover | title page | Contents links | prelims | Chapter 1 | ... etc) Sigil will only reload Section00001.html for later editing, not the entire ebook it itself created.
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Sigil will open whatever sections (files) you've created. It doesn't open the whole thing like a word-processor with a single file. An ePUB is a collection of files, if it's done correctly. If you have "section0005.html," then you need to open it for editing by clicking on it, in Sigil. Then look at CodeView, if you want to work in the HTML (which is where you should be doing the work).
We export Word to HTML, and then import it to Sigil, all the time. Personally, I wouldn't waste the time with the additional OO step, but whatever floats your boat.) We tend to use regex to s&r and replace named entities (e.g., "&hellips" and the like) because that's our preference. You are likely encountering encoding issues--Word uses Win-1252, and Sigil assumes utf-8, if memory serves. You should open the HTML in a dedicated HTML editor, like NoteTab Pro, NotePad, whatever you have, and replace any questionable entities with named characters, to make your life easier.
You might also consider
the Sigil Tutorial.
That might save you some headache. If, for some unknown reason, you think you need to have
everything open at once, for editing, you can use ePUBTweak, the utility, open all the files in File Manager, and then open them all in an HTML editor of your choice, but Sigil also gives you complete access to all your files. You could, I suppose, open all the internal files IN Sigil at once, and work from the tabs across the top, making Sigil quite wide, but I'm not sure that you and I are saying the same thing(s), or that I'm answering quite what you're asking.
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