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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Have you tried using the "Preview Pane"?? It is "Book View", but always up...either docked along the edge or full screen on a second display. It pretty much obviates the need for BV. Go to View in the menu and select "Preview" or you can toggle it on/off with F10.
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+1 for Preview Pane. It's terrific.
HOWEVER--and you've all heard me complain about Bookview before--I think that the copy-paste aspect of styled HTML and, for that matter, the ubiquitous Word files--needs to be addressed somehow (I personally like the idea of a paste option that could handle this, or a pop-up clipboard?). My desire to see BV go bye-bye is largely due to the sort of endless confusion, by new users who think it's Word with code, and want to be able to change Styles the same basic way. That, to my mind, is problematic.
But I don't want to vote to inadvertently remove a workflow mechanism from those who use it. If you're trying to copy-paste a webpage, or, again, Word, you do need the BV for that to work. So, if we nuke BV in favor of PV, then we should try to find a fairly easy alternative copy-paste method.
(On the Editing EPUBs article: I can't take a lot of that input seriously. Not to knock Julian's program, but Jutoh is not a Sigil nor Calibre-Editor replacement. I do know that there are commercial producers out there who use it, but...I couldn't. BlueGriffon? Sheesh. Some of those workflows described made my teeth hurt and my eyes cross--particularly the tortured one about putting a Word file into INDD, doing yadda, making print books, and then putting the SAME Word file into Jutoh and making ebooks. Talk about repetitive work! And what does she do when the Author decides that she needs 100 edits? URK. That's someone who isn't doing 100 books every month,
that I can guarantee. You wouldn't do that more than once.).
That's my $.02 about BV, PV and copy-pasting. FWIW.
Hitch