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Originally Posted by eschwartz
In any event, (my second question) what I don't get is, isn't this exactly why preview was created? What does Book View do that Preview (in Sigil) doesn't?
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You mean besides f**k stuff up when people forget and make a seemingly innocent edit while in it?... Not much.
I do believe Book View will synchronize your location between it and Code View (where Preview will not). As to why it (Preview) was created, I'm guessing it was so people like me could turn off the dangerous temptation of Book View and still see how things were rendering. Which is what I tend to do. But the allure of that synchronization feature can be still be strong at times.
My only real issue with book-edit is that if I want to avail myself of any of its automated features--such as Beautify--I do so at the cost of losing all entities and DOCTYPE declarations in my files. In Sigil, I can "Pretty Print" and retain Doctypes and entities.
Why retaining those things is important to me is fairly irrelevant--they just
are.