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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's quite possible that older versions of Sigil would add title tags for you if they were missing, but you need to understand that not all things that Sigil "used to do," but no longer does, is a Sigil "bug." Sometimes it's called change. 
HTMLTidy; that element of Sigil which was the Great Fixer of all things wrong (which unfortunately came at the cost of drastic changes to many things that weren't), is gone.
I'm almost positive there's a way to get Word to add a title for you. Take a close look at the "Save as Web Page, Filtered" dialog options. |
Fair enough; it's a "change," not a "bug." But when looked at from the perspective of the average user, a change that results in failure to validate is a bug, a.k.a. a really big headache because we cannot necessarily figure out what is wrong or how to fix it (because we are not coders). Is Sigil made only for coders, or also for average users who want to build their own ebook from their Word document?
(I figured out how to fix the problem by reading the error, looking at the header code of older ebooks that passed validation, and seeing what the difference was between them and my new file. I could not fix it simply by reading the error message and knowing instinctively what the error was referring to.)
I looked at the Word options both for general Save and for Web Options. There is nothing there that seems to speak to adding the title. I have attached screen shots of the web defaults in case I am missing something.
Perhaps Sigil could be programmed to check the header for the title element and, if it is missing, add it. (Perhaps some kind of element of the import filter?) If not, a warning would be good, perhaps in the user manual. The path of Word to HTML to Sigil to ePub is a popular one. Perhaps not as popular as automated programs like Calibre, but still popular among those of us who want to build our own books but who are not professional coders.