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Originally Posted by ghmerrill
The most difficult part of software design/development is getting the developer to put himself or herself in the position of the user in order to see what the user sees as a need and why it's seen as a need.
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As I mentioned, we're just not going to be putting ourselves in the position of the user that wants to use Sigil as an authoring tool. It's not that it's too difficult. It's the fact that we're simply not looking to promote Sigil as an authorial tool. We're developing an epub editor, not a writing (or content creation) tool.
Every development decision we make tends to be predicated on users looking to modify pre-existing epubs, or users creating epubs from pre-existing xhtml content and then tweaking. We're not looking to cater to folks wanting content creation tools.
The notion of people using Sigil to write content (either in wysiwyg mode or using xhtml) from scratch isn't something we're prepared to encourage. You're certainly free to try to continue to use it that way, but I fear there will be very little in the way of new Sigil development to make it any easier for you to do that. We're simply making development decisions that are probably going to continue to run counter to your needs.
We're focused on epub creating/editing/formatting. Not content creation. Always have been.