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Originally Posted by KevinH
Just since DiapDealer and I started Sigil has:
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Absolutely fantastic work you've been doing so far.
I'm very grateful when you two picked up the mantle after user_none left.
If I would've been stuck with Calibre Editor... while it's okay, I think Sigil is just so much better.
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Originally Posted by KevinH
We are focusing our attention on getting a Sigil 1.0 out there that serious users and epub developers can use to create high quality epub2 and epub3 epubs. Novice users who know no css and no html really are not our worry nor our target at this time.
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The giant burden of technical support is driving everyone's patience thin.
But it's a big mistake alienating a large portion of the userbase (the author-users).
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Originally Posted by odamizu
KevinH and DiapDealer have gone to great pains to provide an alternative to BookView, and it seems simple enough (to me) for people who want WYSIWYG functionality to install PageEdit and link it to Sigil.
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The exact people who need PageEdit's functionality (noobs and authors) are the exact ones who would find the separate installation instructions incomprehensible.
Hence them appearing in the forums in droves (and I predict they'll continue coming... since most of these only need Sigil once or twice a year).
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Originally Posted by un_pogaz
An probably inexpensive way to solve this would be to include PageEdit in the Sigil installer.
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This is what I was telling Hitch over webcam (which she referenced in Post #30).
I know it defeats a lot of the purpose of getting rid of Book View and making it a completely separate thing (for technical reasons)... but some sort of bundling should be considered.
And maybe something along the lines:
Default the External Editor button to PageEdit, and then technical users can be the ones who can dig into the settings and change/upgrade if needed.
So when yet another "Where's Book View" topic comes, we could easily say:
"You see that paper and pencil icon? That's the new Book View."
(But us technical users will know the
real truth.
)