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More on Book View
To KevinH & DiapDealer:
I understand the issues and appreciate your insight. Hopefully there will be an alternative to WebKit before it is removed from QT5, or other unsurmountable problems come up. If Book View eventually becomes too problematic an alternative would be for us to continue to use an older stable version of Sigil for book view style editing and switch to a newer version for other editing. Perhaps later we will be in a position where we could contribute (coding wise).
To st_albert & Hitch:
Yes, we are a very different type of user, but there are a many of us out here. We are small independent publishers and authors. Personally I work in the Seattle and Portland areas but sometimes work with OpenStax CNX in Houston. We are quite tech savvy, most of us can hack HTML, CSS, JavaScript. However, we do not like to hack code while we are writing because it is a huge distraction and reduces productivity (hence the value of Book View).
I have 4 books out now for which I used Sigil as the final editor. Each one was written in LibreOffice or PanDocs Markdown and I used Google Docs for research and collaboration with other authors. My intention was to import them into Sigil as the last stage of the tool chain and then do the final edit. Of course they dragged on for another 6 months to a year and were substantially rewritten AFTER being imported to Sigil. I would say that 1/4 to 1/2 of the total writing was done in Sigil when all was finally said and done.
In your usage case, you are the final editor?? In this case the author has finished and passes the work to you for final editing. In our case we are the author AND the final editor.
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