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GrannyGrump · 07-16-2014, 01:50 AM

I hope someone will jump in here if I am giving bad advice ---

*In most cases* it will help to go to Edit >> Preferences >> Clean Source. Then under "Automatically Clean..." UNCHECK both Open and Save. Select "Pretty Print" rather than "HTML Tidy" so that if/when it does run, it uses the Pretty Print mode --- HTML Tidy can sometimes be destructive of your code and layout, and can actually lose data.

That said, I have found with version .074, it will automatically "Pretty Print" or "Tidy" your (x)html pages when you run certain procedures. One that happens to me all the time is when I "split at cursor" or "split at markers". All my preferred indentations and line spacing on the code page are changed to Sigil's preferred layout, and my careful usage of named/numbered entities (like your hellip) are changed to the actual characters. (I would prefer the entities for certain Search and Replace procedures.)

I think v .072 did not do this, and keep meaning to load it up and test it, but haven't checked that yet.

07-16-2014, 01:50 AM	#2
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,231 Karma: 35158061 Join Date: May 2011 Location: PA {back in the usa!} Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	I hope someone will jump in here if I am giving bad advice --- In most cases it will help to go to Edit >> Preferences >> Clean Source. Then under "Automatically Clean..." UNCHECK both Open and Save. Select "Pretty Print" rather than "HTML Tidy" so that if/when it does run, it uses the Pretty Print mode --- HTML Tidy can sometimes be destructive of your code and layout, and can actually lose data. That said, I have found with version .074, it will automatically "Pretty Print" or "Tidy" your (x)html pages when you run certain procedures. One that happens to me all the time is when I "split at cursor" or "split at markers". All my preferred indentations and line spacing on the code page are changed to Sigil's preferred layout, and my careful usage of named/numbered entities (like your hellip) are changed to the actual characters. (I would prefer the entities for certain Search and Replace procedures.) I think v .072 did not do this, and keep meaning to load it up and test it, but haven't checked that yet.