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Old 05-23-2015, 02:16 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
There is no such thing as"just loading" into Sigil. There are certain structural considerations and well-formed checks that are GOING to happen. Since these things are predicated on EPUB2 (And there not being any support for HTML5 in its well-formed checks), it can certainly make a dog's lunch of an EPUB3.

Being able to open an EPUB3 without breaking it is certainly one of the short-term goals of current Sigil development, but it's not ready.
I would love a feature that would allow a conversion of ePub 3 to ePub 2 on load. Most ePub 3 are nothing special and should have been ePub 2 from the start.
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