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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
Again, though, the average user is not going to know this. More importantly, if, as Kevin says, "using the name of the file as a 'title' is not a good idea to say the least," then putting in any title is a bad thing, and thus clicking on Change Title and inputting the title is not good. (I tried clicking on Change Title and leaving it blank, thinking perhaps that maybe Word would add the tag but without any content, but no luck.)
Instead one needs to know that the title tag must now be added when importing a Word HTML file into Sigil because the program has changed since it last did this automatically. If you don't add the tag, the file will fail validation.
Failure to validate will cause the ePub to be rejected by retailers such as Apple, Kobo, B&N, etc, and by the better aggregators. Most users of Sigil, as far as I understand, are building commercial ePubs, either for themselves or clients.
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Sigil's job is to help you create working EPUBs.
Validation plugins are your best bet for making sure that the book
validates.
As has been said, Sigil never fixed everything, always, automagically.
And Sigil is moving away from fixing things automatically, in the hopes of empowering users and not eating their books anymore.
AFAIK, Sigil still creates a valid stub file for you, but if you import files as-is from elsewhere, you will have to make sure they are properly made.
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Kevin, I do know basic HTML, and have been a Sigil user for about four years now. I was one of those John approached when he took over, asking for feedback on future development. I was approached because I am a typical user and John wanted to make the program work for typical users.
I have been an avid promoter of Sigil. And I can understand the gist of the validation output -- I've managed this far. But I am not a programmer nor do I want to be. I didn't have to be while using Sigil before: the important elements, like building the heading code for example, were automated. Since I understood the basics, Sigil worked well for me.
What made John such as good development coordinator was that he listened to and understood his user base. Sure, there were those that were dumber than dumb, but I'm not. After all, I did find the solution on my own. My intention by starting this post is to bring to your attention a change/bug/revision that has caused a problem for your users. I'm not going to be the only one who runs into this problem. Thus I find your response perplexing.
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That was uncalled for.
The fact that Kevin and Diap disagree with you about the best approach does not mean they don't care about their user base. If they didn't care about their userbase they wouldn't have bothered to take over maintenance (and Sigil would still be dead in the water). And if John thought they didn't
understand the userbase, he wouldn't've passed the reins on.