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phossler · 06-20-2014, 08:01 PM

A nice Sigil feature was the ability to have 'Templates' with placeholders that would be changed at insert time:

http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/...add_cover.html

[Insert Cover] and if cover.xhtml was in the user's AppData folder, it would be used instead of a 'generic' xhtml

It might be a useful feature to have templates xhtml files for Cover, TOC, New, Title, etc.

Something like

[Insert Special ...]
Cover
Title
TOC
New
browse ....

The Sigil Cover template had 3 placeholders ...

SGC_IMAGE_FILENAME: this will be replaced by the path to the image in your EPUB.
SGC_IMAGE_WIDTH: this will be replaced by the width in pixels of your image.
SGC_IMAGE_HEIGHT: this will be replaced by the height in pixels of your image.

but possible the different 'specials' would have their own as appropriate

You can insert a file now of course, but the benefit IMHO would be the place holders and the generation of the semantics (I think that's the term for saying "This is the Cover")

06-20-2014, 08:01 PM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Template suggestion? A nice Sigil feature was the ability to have 'Templates' with placeholders that would be changed at insert time: http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/...add_cover.html [Insert Cover] and if cover.xhtml was in the user's AppData folder, it would be used instead of a 'generic' xhtml It might be a useful feature to have templates xhtml files for Cover, TOC, New, Title, etc. Something like [Insert Special ...] Cover Title TOC New browse .... The Sigil Cover template had 3 placeholders ... SGC_IMAGE_FILENAME: this will be replaced by the path to the image in your EPUB. SGC_IMAGE_WIDTH: this will be replaced by the width in pixels of your image. SGC_IMAGE_HEIGHT: this will be replaced by the height in pixels of your image. but possible the different 'specials' would have their own as appropriate You can insert a file now of course, but the benefit IMHO would be the place holders and the generation of the semantics (I think that's the term for saying "This is the Cover") Last edited by phossler; 06-20-2014 at 08:06 PM.