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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To be honest. I'm just utterly baffled that anyone would choose/want to compose an entire novel in Sigil (Book View or PageEdit).
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It's not a novel. I made the Sigil decision several years ago after a careful consideration of the entire process from the initial stages through publication. I think that at that time -- and for me -- it was the best and most versatile decision. At this point in time it may not be, but I still believe that it's quite viable and provides some significant advantages over common alternatives. And part of that is the control it offers me at the XHTML level. Book View offered the advantage of composing generally in WYSIWYG, and otherwise Sigil seemed to me to be quite well thought out, designed, implemented, and tested, and to provide more confidence than other alternatives. That may have changed, but I'm not about to make the change prior to finishing the book, and I'm skeptical that short of some high-end and costly software that I'd gain anything.
For comparison, one alternative I had at the time I decided to go with Sigil was to use my wife's copy of Dreamweaver. I'm not totally inexperienced with Dreamweaver, tried it a bit, but didn't care for the result.
You just can't ever tell about users and their needs and goals. They'll often baffle you.
