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Old 09-28-2014, 03:09 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Honestly, you are likely better off with Scrivener. That's a word-processing and writing/authoring program. Sigil isn't. I really wish that when Valloric had launched this program, he'd left the whole "WYSIWYG" text OFF the description(s) of the program, because it seems to constantly cause this type of conflation.

I think you'd be better off simply using something like Scrivener, and when you're done authoring the book, THEN output your book in ePUB from that, validate it, and if you have issues, THEN use Sigil. Using Sigil for drafting/redrafting/editing is, to my way of thinking, the wrong tool for the wrong job. Or use Jutoh; another program that is far more "writer-friendly" in terms of what it does than is Sigil. As user_none said, somewhere in time, Sigil is simply an XHTML/CSS editing tool for those users already familiar with both--it's not an authoring tool, per se.

Hope that helps.
Hitch
It's because I'm comfortable with html/css that I like Sigil.

I have Scrivener. Years ago, when I first started my website, I did the first pages in Word and exported them to html. Lord, what a mess. I learned a lot about Regex getting rid of all the (totally unnecessary) junk Word put in. I only tried one epub test with Scrivener, and it suffers from the same thing. Now, it has a gazillion settings for producing an epub, and somewhere in all those settings there is probably a way to turn all that off, but I don't have that many years left. I only publish on Kindle, and <i> and <b> work fine. Scrivener would put <span style="font-style:italic"></span> instead of <i> and <span style="font-weight:bold"></span> for <b>. Plus, as I remember, putting font information in every paragraph, never mind that they were all the same. And on, and on.

I'll admit, I don't have a lot of patience; the afore-mentioned years. I looked at Jutoh. The author of that program has his own way of handling styles; I've already learned css, I don't want to learn a workaround.

I finally finished that book I've been working on so long, and it's live (3540 KB.) Whew!

So. Now that that book is done, I have no excuse not to rework my own program so it knows how to start a new book. Most of the heavy work is all done, I've just got to relearn how I did everything. I don't have Alzheimer's, but close. I only remember new things long enough to use them, then if I have to do the same thing again, I have to relearn it all over again.

Thanks, Hitch, and everybody else who's chimed in.

Onward and upward.

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