Why on earth don't you use a real writer's tool like Word, or Libre/OpenOffice or Google Docs or some other software word processing suite. If you set a few key styles at the start and use them all along use their associated grammar and other linguistic support tools you must certainly be more productive than using Sigil in BookView.
And there are many tools that can import the xml or html generated from these word processing programs which can be then be cleaned up in Sigil or Calibre.
PageEdit is not meant to be a word processing program either. It is meant more for proofing and minor edits.
So either stick with an older version of Sigil or use BBEdit then if it is more to your liking.
KevinH
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Originally Posted by tetrault
I've read posts about installing PageEdit, and external versus internal, or making it a Plug-In, etc. The important questions to me are: how well does it work in comparison to Book View and what extra features does it have?
As far as Book View bugginess* goes, I've written eight novels in Sigil. I spend most of the time writing in Book View, because I do not wish to interrupt the flow of writing by typing <p> and <i> every ten seconds. I have used Sigil since version 0.7, and I never had significant problems with Book View. I've had problems with Sigil in general, but they mostly were about saving and Check EPUB. Without Book View or something equivalent, there is little to recommend Sigil. BBEdit has much better tools for writing HTML, and assembling HTML chapters into an ePub is easy.
*Macintosh versions. Your mileage may vary. |