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Friends,
I appreciate your feedback. My hope as one of you suggested was to find an easy way to not merely make an Epub but also to make an HTML document to copy paste into Joomla web pages. What I want Sigil for is to make minor edits to the HTML and CSS after exporting the HTML document from Libre Writer and before importing it to Joomla. It is not merely Joomla, but nearly all content management systems that place images in a folder called images. Needless to say, there is a huge difference between a folder called images and a folder called Images. It is also common practice to place images inside of sub folders inside of the main folders, thus images/category1/image01.jpg, etc is the most common way of naming images on the Internet. I worked very hard to find a way for Libre Writer to preserve my images structure when exporting images to an HTML document and the links I have in my HTML document are correct before opening the document in Sigil.
What I do not understand is why Sigil can not either preserve the image links the way they are or at the very least use the name images for the folder instead of Images. As a rule, image links should never use capital letters anywhere in the file name. I am sure there is a variable called Images somewhere in the code of Sigil - that is why the images folder has a capital letter I instead of a lower case letter. I am equally certain that the name for the images folder in Sigil can be changed to a lower case letter i by finding and renaming this variable to begin with a lower case i.
Other than the odd behavior of needlessly changing the file path on images, I really like Sigil. I do have several ways of working around the problem - such as opening the Epub. But my hope was not to cover up the problem but rather to permanently solve the problem. As it is, there is a coding error in Sigil which needs to be corrected. When I have more time, I will dig into the code and correct it. I was just hoping that someone here was already aware of this problem and already knew where to go in the code to fix this problem.
I do believe Sigil has the potential to act as a go between to help edit convert ed Libre Writer documents to HTML web pages that can then be used as Joomla web pages. But it will require solving the images folder naming problem. I will post the solution on this forum if and when I ever find that solution.
Regards, David
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