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Originally Posted by CliffB
Many of the people posting to this thread make the assumption that Sigil is always used as a final editor and tweaker before publishing to ePub format, and that book view is not needed. I work with about 25 editors and writers in small publishing companies and our original intention was also to use Sigil as a final editor and tweaker in our tool chain. In reality that is not what happens in most use cases.
In real world usage most of us have a tool chain and do use other tools such as word processors and Google Docs to originate content and then import into Sigil at some point. HOWEVER, a huge amount of modification and rewriting ends up taking place in Sigil. I can give you many reasons why this is the case if you are interested, but we always end up doing doing a substantial amount of writing in Sigil.
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Thanks for sharing your workflow. It was an eye-opener to me!
As my post right above yours suggests, my experience has been almost the opposite of yours. I do 90+% of my work (which is book interior design) for a single publisher whose authors and editors almost exclusively use Word or an equivalent. Only after the final edits are complete do I get a .doc file for placement into InDesign and/or conversion to epub and other formats.
Your authors must be
much more tech-savvy than the ones I work with. I can only imagine the chaos which would ensue if we asked our authors to use Sigil as a word processor!
So it seems there's a whole other world out there that I had been unaware of. Horses for courses, eh?
Albert