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Old 01-20-2018, 09:28 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
So... you guys are suggesting that there is a problem with Sigil, because it displays the text correctly - and not like it is displayed in Kobo? Sigil has introduced an alarming lack of Kobo detected problems, is that it? Odd.
Not quite right. Neither Sigil's internal viewer or calibre viewer use the same code as either of the renderer's used in a Kobo. And yes, I've seen times when there have been differences between all four.

This is not a criticism of Sigil, calibre, ADE/RMSDK or ACCESS NetFront BookReader and their developers. I have seen some epubs that have used truly strange approaches to structuring the code in an epub file. And you guessed it, some of those approaches can and will cause display issues. One recent ebook I was looking at wrapped curly quotes in <i></i> tags for some reason known only to the developer(s) of the editor used (<i>“</i> as an example). This same ebook also put </i><i> in the middle of words -- <i>S</i><i>t.</i> <i>Roc</i><i>he</i><i>’</i><i>s</i> as an example. "The St. Roche’s trip through the Northwest Passage during the rain of King George VI"

As stated, editing in BookView in Sigil is NOT RECOMMENDED as you cannot see the tags and can end up with some rather strange code. Using CodeView with the preview pane is the recommended approach.
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