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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have a great idea. Modify Sigil so you cannot paste from Word. More people get it so very wrong using Word than any other program.
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Wolfie:
Don't be obstreperous. No reason on earth to do that; if they can't abuse Sigil with Word, they'll find some other way. That's just being...
mean. And, strewth, a competent user of Word CAN, actually, create perfectly decent, paste-a-ble HTML, IF (big caveat) they know what they are doing. I've done it myself. Granted, not recently, but...it can be done. If you use a clean set of styles, and create your document, you CAN, absolutely, just paste the entire damn thing right into Sigil. That doesn't mean you don't have to clean up some of what happens, afterwards, using HTML and search/regex/etc.; but it
works, to a certain degree.
Besides--
it's a good way for beginners to learn, really. Take XXX out of Word, paste it into Sigil, and they can SEE what this or that does, in an eBook. To a large extent, that's how I initially learned (using MBPC, back in 'the day'). Nothing wrong with it. Yes, it's vexing to get folks that want it to BECOME Word, but....we will never be able to stop that.
Hitch