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Old 11-19-2019, 11:12 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
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
Or the free and incredibly full-featured YWriter? I mean, hey...people don't appreciate it because it's not "pretty" like Scrivener, but mother of God, it does EVERYTHING Scrivener does and then some and again, free, Free, FREE.

I have every writing program (seriously) known to mankind, from word processors (LO, OO, Word, Wordperfect, Atlantis, amongst the front-runners) and all the "writing programs" (Scrivener, YWriter, Dramatica Pro, LSB XE, Novel Factory, Power Structure, Truby's program and so on) and serious as a heart attack, I'll put Ywriter against ANY of them. It's got absolutely everything you could ever want; it's easy to not use the things you don't want and it has features that NOTHING else has (like automatic character timelining, so that you don't put old Mary Sue in two places at once!). And, yup, you can export to ePUB.

And, did I say, FREE?

(Honestly, it's a damned shame that people are taken in by the "pretty." It is. LSB XE was one of those--looked GREAT. Was flexible, yes, if you could parse the structure and use the features. Lots of people were impressed enough with the "pretty" to buy it--but it's nothing compared to YWriter. It's sooo stupid.)

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