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blue_skies · 08-10-2019, 10:29 PM

Hello. I have been using Sigil, off and on, for a long time and never received this error. I can't find information on what it means or what to do about it, and I'm hoping somebody here can help me.

I previously always used Sigil to create and/or edit ebooks on Windows 7. This is the first book I am editing on Linux Mint. Actually, it's just the Linux Mint user manual. (I wanted to read it on my ereader, but the reflow is awful because the text on top of it has at least two words that run together on almost every line. I figured since I have to read it on my computer anyway, I might as well fix it.)

I copied, pasted, and edited about forty percent of it earlier today, and then saved it and turned off my computer. Now when I reopened it, I got this error:

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 249 at column 8: internal error: Huge input lookup
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

I scrolled to the bottom, and it looks like it is displaying the text all the way to where I left off earlier.

The only unusual thing I noticed when I was working on it earlier was this:

I was copying the text from the pdf file and then pasting it into Sigil. For a short while, instead of pasting it straight into Sigil, I pasted it into the Linux built-in Text Editor to remove any formatting, and then pasted it into Sigil. (I used to do that some times in Windows with Notepad.) I started to notice that I couldn't place my mouse pointer in certain lines of text, and instead had to use the keyboard error buttons to navigate over to words that needed to be edited. It wasn't all the lines of text, just one here and there.

It was weird. I never had that issue in Windows. I ended up just going back to pasting straight into Sigil and choosing "plain text". I'm now wondering if that caused the error. I Googled it and also tried to find an answer in the Sigil Wiki, but so far, no luck.

Is anybody here familiar with this particular error? Is there a way to correct it, or do I need to just scrap the epub? It was quite a few hours of work, so I'm hoping it can be saved without too much trouble.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Edited to Add: I am using version 0.9.9, which I just installed today from the repository.

08-10-2019, 10:29 PM	#1
blue_skies Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 1143880 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Ohio Device: Mobiscribe Wave B&W; Kindle Scribe; Boyue Mimas & 62+; KindleKeyboard	Internal Error: Huge Input Lookup Hello. I have been using Sigil, off and on, for a long time and never received this error. I can't find information on what it means or what to do about it, and I'm hoping somebody here can help me. I previously always used Sigil to create and/or edit ebooks on Windows 7. This is the first book I am editing on Linux Mint. Actually, it's just the Linux Mint user manual. (I wanted to read it on my ereader, but the reflow is awful because the text on top of it has at least two words that run together on almost every line. I figured since I have to read it on my computer anyway, I might as well fix it.) I copied, pasted, and edited about forty percent of it earlier today, and then saved it and turned off my computer. Now when I reopened it, I got this error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 249 at column 8: internal error: Huge input lookup Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. I scrolled to the bottom, and it looks like it is displaying the text all the way to where I left off earlier. The only unusual thing I noticed when I was working on it earlier was this: I was copying the text from the pdf file and then pasting it into Sigil. For a short while, instead of pasting it straight into Sigil, I pasted it into the Linux built-in Text Editor to remove any formatting, and then pasted it into Sigil. (I used to do that some times in Windows with Notepad.) I started to notice that I couldn't place my mouse pointer in certain lines of text, and instead had to use the keyboard error buttons to navigate over to words that needed to be edited. It wasn't all the lines of text, just one here and there. It was weird. I never had that issue in Windows. I ended up just going back to pasting straight into Sigil and choosing "plain text". I'm now wondering if that caused the error. I Googled it and also tried to find an answer in the Sigil Wiki, but so far, no luck. Is anybody here familiar with this particular error? Is there a way to correct it, or do I need to just scrap the epub? It was quite a few hours of work, so I'm hoping it can be saved without too much trouble. Thanks in advance for any advice! Edited to Add: I am using version 0.9.9, which I just installed today from the repository. Last edited by blue_skies; 08-10-2019 at 10:34 PM.