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Originally Posted by theducks
I do move pure EPUB questions out to EPUB forum.
I do move General 'Do I do..." to Workshop.
If they have/require a Sigil specific technique to accomplish 'x', I leave them.
I do wish the description would drop WYSIWYG and refer to BV as a Position Linked code editor (That is the way I use it to avoid the coded side effects that still persist. )
(If I had my druthers, I would move all 'Amazon' and other non-EPUB format questions outa here. But I am just the help, so they get to stay  ) |
I +1 the suggestion that the "WYSIWYG" portion of the Sigil description get dropped. It's absurdly misleading. Sure, you can edit text, arguably, but we all know the drawbacks to that. And look at the top post in the forum, as I write this, from a guy writing his book in PagePlus (whatever that is) Serif, or something, and his font styles are getting all bollixed with he "puts it in Sigil," however that's happening. This type of question, from people who are utterly clueless about the basics of ePUB, will persist until the description is changed to what it IS, which is an XHTML/CSS Editor, with certain ePUB-specific unique features. Otherwise, we'll be answering these types of questions forever.
I don't begrudge the answering, within the scope of what's already public knowledge, but let's face it--a lot of the time that we all invest here is, frankly, wasted, because the person isn't remotely prepared to go read Pablo's Tutorial, buy and read Liz's book, etc. They want something like Atlantis, at best.
user_none, can't we consider at least clarifying the reality of what it does, and does not do? I believe that notjohn will recall a rather vociferous rant on the KDP forums about how "bad" Sigil was, because the user (mind you--this is someone who holds himself out as a commercial, professional bookmaker who works in HTML) couldn't get the "dropdown styles" to work--in other words, he seemed to think that the CLIPS were for styling, like in Word. It's simply misleading to say it's WYSIWYG, and it's not like those folks who think it is, try it, get frustrated and storm off are going to help support it, either.
Just my $.02. FWIW.
Hitch