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Originally Posted by un_pogaz
Many will abandon Sigil because BookView has disappeared and he can't imagine any other way of working than in WYSIWYG (and we never will be).
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Then they were never going to like Sigil, and I don't really care. If you think I'm in this because I want to see Sigil being used by millions of people who rave about it being the best, then you're sadly mistaken. I'm not motivated by trying to make Sigil the most popular epub editing software ever. Not even a little bit. I'm trying to make Sigil useful. If you need full WYSIWYG capabilities, then Sigil was
never the software for you (rhetorical you). If you're a coder and you just need a bit WYSIWYG tweaking then PageEdit will easily accommodate you (even utterly unincorporated with Sigil as it is). The only people the ditching of Book View will dramatically affect are those who (bewilderingly) were using Sigil as an authoring (read -- word-processing) tool with no html/css knowledge whatsoever. Something it was never intended to be used for/by.
PageEdit will remain a separately launched tool (installed anywhere the user likes, and configured with the provided button in Sigil), and Sigil will continue to lack any WYSIWYG descriptors until people get it.
This conversation is pointless in the grand scheme of things. People will learn, or they will be left behind. Their choice. In a year, everyone will have adapted or moved on, and none of this will even matter. I once believed in my heart that Sigil 0.4.2-ish was the be-all, end-all version of Sigil. And that any version after the 0.4.x series was an abomination. This too shall pass.