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Originally Posted by lizarddreaming
Again, my apologies, I've never been on these kinds of forums before and wasn't sure how to do the "code" block inside a post. Is it the # icon in the ribbon?
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Yes. That allows code to show up like this:
Code:
This is an example of code.
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Originally Posted by lizarddreaming
I dunno. It's how I've done 9 previous books. Dump in, split at sections, proceed with formatting. Book View, other than losing the italics formatting, makes very nice cleaned up HTML out of Word docs.
[...] is almost as clean as the BookView clean up (maybe BookView could live on as a clean up plugin because thus far, it's been the best at making very workable HTML from Word, again minus the lack of keeping formatting intact).
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That wasn't Book View's intent, that was just a "happy" side effect of copying/pasting in there.
It's a giant step above Word's horrible HTML, but there are better and more reliable conversion methods out there.
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Originally Posted by lizarddreaming
I like staying up to date, if possible. I'm proceeding with the current project at 9.14 but am willing to upgrade if there's an advantage. What are the technical advantages to the new engine? (aside from the interface that we've been discussing).
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Book View has been a very buggy and maintenance mess for a long time.
Not too get too technical, but Sigil uses this large program called Qt to display the GUI and code (similar to a web browser). Qt has been updating/changing its own guts, which has made it incompatible with Sigil's Book View.
Diap and Kevin have been bandaiding over these Qt<->Book View bugs for a long time, but it has reached a point where it is HELL, so they finally decided to cut the cord.
Doing this will make maintaining Sigil much easier, as they won't have to be wasting time on all those bandaids, and can spend more time making Sigil better and more stable than it already is.
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Originally Posted by lizarddreaming
Thanks again for all the suggestions, the new plugin seems to work very well and the new project is proceeding much faster due to not having to hunt down all the italics! That alone is worth it.
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Nice.
And learn how to use Styles!
And teach that author how to use Styles too! Even if they use Pages, it has similar functionality:
Pages for Mac: Intro to paragraph styles
Pages for Mac: Create, rename, or delete paragraph styles in a Pages document
All the Styles logic should be pretty similar across Word/LibreOffice/Pages, it's just the steps are slightly different.