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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
@Dennis I don't use Sigil to edit per se. But it just works out that way. I can edit the document in .odt till I'm blue in the face. So I convert it to html and save it to Sigil. Well, I'm gonna find stuff to tweak there. Until I drop the thing on Amazon I'm going to find stuff to tweak.
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Uh huh.
You use Libre Office Writer to create your work in the first place. That's your original source document. Then you convert to ePub, and tweak endlessly till you are ready to drop the result on Amazon. The result you drop on Amazon will increasingly
diverge from your source document.
What happens if you decide to do a
rewrite, and produce a version 2 of the book? (More likely in non-fiction, I think, but happens in fiction, too.)
Do you think you can do
that in Sigil? (I don't.) So you have to go back to the LO Writer file you started from and redo that, but
it won't have all the tweaks you added after the fact in Sigil, so you must redo all of those (and remember what you did because there isn't a good way of recording them and automating doing it again).
The whole point I am making is the need to master your tools to reduce the
amount you will tweak after the fact. In a perfect world, you could convert from LO Writer to ePub and everything will be good enough that Sigil isn't required. It's an imperfect world, so Sigil will remain in the workflow.
But as much as possible, tweaks should
not be made to do something you didn't know how to do in LO but can do after the fact in Sigil. You should know how to do it in LO.
I'd start keeping records when I fiddled in Sigil on what changes I made and why, and review periodically to see where better knowledge of LO would have eliminated the need to tweak in Sigil, then go back and play with LO to acquire the knowledge.
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Dennis