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Originally Posted by tetrault
I do almost all my work in book view, and I have for years. If I wanted to write my books in HTML code and rarely look at “book view,” then I would avoid the buggy Sigil and use BBEdit.
The whole point of Sigil is to write formatted text and to edit HTML code only as needed. Sigil didn’t come into being so we could write 99% of our work in code view. There are scores of apps that have that ability.
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Well, I only began using Sigil in January 2012, so I can't comment on what Sigil's developer intended before that time, but I certainly wasn't under the impression that Book View was the way to go at that time. (I may be wrong, but I think that was some version of 0.7.x.) Unless I'm revising a previously published ebook, I only ever feed it clean html (cleaned from Word).
If I'm just tweaking text, I'm perfectly comfortable doing it in Code View. If I'm adding a new chapter or completing rewriting a lengthy section, then I do it in Word, paste that *.docx into a Word-to-html cleaner, and paste the html into Code View. (I don't have the patience to muck about with Styles. Word, for me, is just a super-fast typewriter. I love it!)