[Evil Overlord]

I appreciate all the work that goes into Sigil. I depend on it heavily for my work. At the same time, the uncertainty about the Book View change meant that it's taken me until now to upgrade from v.9.1.3.

Having done so, and now tried Sigil 1, with PageEdit 1, I'm not really clear on why the change. One significant benefit Sigil had over casual editing in Calibre was the F2 BookView option. PageEdit seems a much clunkier way to accomplish the same thing.

I do most of my editing in code view, but WYSIWYG exists for a reason - it's just easier to make minor tweaks in BookView mode - inserting commas, checking capitalization, seeing whether a dash is an em, en, or hyphen, etc. I also used it for writing short elements - prefaces, forewords, copyright sections, etc. - anything where creating a separate LibreOffice file and then exporting to html would be too much bother.

WYSIWYG is one reason Word won out over the more powerful WordPerfect (except for lawyers) way back when. I don't know the basis for the BookView removal decision, and the forum suggests there are strong views on this, but if there's a way to bring it back - or to make PageEdit work the way BookView used to, that would be good. The preview window just doesn't do the same thing, and the separate PageEdit window is messy.

I appreciate that PageEdit exists, but I do wish BookView still did.