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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
But it's a big mistake alienating a large portion of the userbase (the author-users).
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We're not trying to alienate anyone. Authors have never been the intended target for Sigil. We have not billed it as such, nor has it ever been billed as an authorial tool. If some people find it works for them to use it to write books, that's fine. But that's not our target user-base.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
The exact people who need PageEdit's functionality (noobs and authors) are the exact ones who would find the separate installation instructions incomprehensible.
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Again: not at all our goal to appeal to, or to appease, users who know nothing about epub structure and/or html/css. Never has been.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
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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Once or twice a year? Yeah, that's not the user-base we're targeting. Sorry. I'm not going to concern myself at all with users who need Sigil once a year. Plus .... "Droves" is a bit of an exaggeration, no?. I get cranky because people don't at least
TRY to use the resources that are available to help themselves. But the
number of malcontents doesn't worry me at all. We're pushing 9K downloads of the Windows 0.9.18 installer. The squeaky wheels are a bit annoying, but not overwhelming.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
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."
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This is simply not going to happen. Please put it out of your head. The only way to pre-configure that button to launch PageEdit is to deliver PageEdit
with Sigil. And we're not. going. to. do. that.
When I have some time to waste (or someone else finds some time or inclination to contribute) I may create a Windows installer for PageEdit. But there's never going to be a combined Sigil/PagEdit installer, nor will any future PageEdit installer seek to automatically insinuate itself into an existing Sigil installation. But I'm in no hurry. The self-extracting archive is quite sufficient and straight-forward. Anyone who struggles with it is going to struggle with Sigil anyway.