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slowsmile · 10-03-2016, 07:54 AM

Features that I particularly like in Sigil - in no particular order:

1. Clip Editor

2 Mend and Prettify

3. TOC creation and generation tool(It's good but Calibre's TOC editor is better)

4. Special Characters(Good for resolving mixed encoding problems causing gibberish text)

5. W3C stylesheet Check

6. Vast array of useful Sigil Plugins

7. Index editor

8. Text/HTML view

9. Simple file split/merge capability.

10. Inserting files and images.

11. Very good search and replace.

Things I don't like about Sigil:

1. Poor Sigil Help Guide Support. The last time the help guide was updated in the Git repository was 2 yrs ago. The online Sigil Guide has also gone walkabout.

2. Poor Metadata editor. It's clunky and easy to make a mistake using this editor. I now use a free and fast epub metadata editor called Epub Metadata Editor -- with a very plain dialog that has every possible meta entry you could wish for.

3. Only inserts a book cover images as SVG. It would be nice to have a tick box option to insert the cover image as a plain old HTML <img>. Older Kindle mobi7s cannot display SVG images.

10-03-2016, 07:54 AM	#1
slowsmile Witchman Posts: 628 Karma: 788808 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Philippines Device: Android S5	The pros and cons of Sigil Features that I particularly like in Sigil - in no particular order: 1. Clip Editor 2 Mend and Prettify 3. TOC creation and generation tool(It's good but Calibre's TOC editor is better) 4. Special Characters(Good for resolving mixed encoding problems causing gibberish text) 5. W3C stylesheet Check 6. Vast array of useful Sigil Plugins 7. Index editor 8. Text/HTML view 9. Simple file split/merge capability. 10. Inserting files and images. 11. Very good search and replace. Things I don't like about Sigil: 1. Poor Sigil Help Guide Support. The last time the help guide was updated in the Git repository was 2 yrs ago. The online Sigil Guide has also gone walkabout. 2. Poor Metadata editor. It's clunky and easy to make a mistake using this editor. I now use a free and fast epub metadata editor called Epub Metadata Editor -- with a very plain dialog that has every possible meta entry you could wish for. 3. Only inserts a book cover images as SVG. It would be nice to have a tick box option to insert the cover image as a plain old HTML <img>. Older Kindle mobi7s cannot display SVG images. Last edited by slowsmile; 10-04-2016 at 08:39 AM.