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Originally Posted by theducks
I run Sigil with pretty/mend OFF on load
A 'Well formed' error DOES break the books paths (When Sigil stuffs Images, Styles). The links are NOT updated in the book, resulting in many broken images and no stylesheets and possible MASSIVE loss if you run a clean unused against the book  |
Which is why you should learn to trust Mend, and turn it on.
Seriously, it's not Tidy. Turn it on and see for yourself. You can't blame Sigil for problems that might arise from instructing it NOT to fix the errors that it can easily and absolutely non-destructively
fix. Turning it off is essentially telling Sigil that you're willing to work with broken code (or that you know
absolutely that the the code is perfectly valid beforehand). It would then be up to the user (who was notified upon opening that there were problems) to manually fix that which they told Sigil specifically NOT to fix before proceeding to run any automated tasks.
Again: Mend is not Tidy. Turning it off when opening an epub entails taking full responsibility for properly dealing with problematic markup. It should only be turned off by those willing to
accept that responsibility.