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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
I don't recall early versions of Sigil doing this, but in any case, I can say from a writer's perspective that it's not a great feature. I have a lengthy book that I am redoing solely as an ebook; it is far quicker to edit the existing ebook in Sigil than to start from scratch in InDesign or Word. Trying to rewrite passages while in code view is taxing. So this feature is one of those things that likely seemed like a good idea from a coder's or book builder's perspective but which did not consider the implications for content creators.
Also, remember that writers often find typos later on after the ebook is built and published, or may wish to make minor revisions. It is far more feasible to work from the ebook itself than the original manuscript and rebuild the ebook from scratch. So if the user is not aware of this feature, and fixes stuff in book view, they are inadvertently creating a problem in their text.
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As I already said:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Using spaces instead of would make double-spaces from the Book View incorrectly collapse down to one space.  |
Given two terrible situations, the Sigil developers chose the alternative that caused
less damage.
There is no good solution, it's just a matter of how many people to hurt.