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Originally Posted by KevinH
If you actually want to make the Sigil to PageEdit transition easier for minor edits and proofing, please make sure you have set PageEdit as the Eternal Xhtml Editor in Sigil's General Preferences, then in Sigil, open the opf in the current Tab and then invoke PageEdit with the icon.
You should now be able to edit and proof any of the xhtml files in spine order with easy/fast navigation among the pages. If you want to see the code itself or make minor edits use the Inspector right in PageEdit. When you are done, save the pages and exit back to Sigil.
That is how the interface was meant to work.
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...Wow, that's so much easier than simply clicking 'book view' in Sigil /s
While it may have been a boat anchor for you, for someone like me that really doesn't care about the actual formatting code 90% of the time (at least), and just wants to fix a few errors, it was much easier.
Now, instead of opening a document, making a change or two, then closing it, I get to open it, select the correct section, open it with another program, make my changes there, return to Sigil, and then close it.
It's your software, and it is free. You have the ability to do whatever you want with it. In fact, you could make the backgrounds fluorescent yellow and the text blinking purple, and no one could object on a 'hey, we paid for that!' level. Just understand that there are other people that really like the previous functionality, and so you're going to hear about this for years as people upgrade and realize what they've lost.
In fact, I just created this account only to make this comment - I've used Sigil for years, only upgrading (mainly) as either I've gotten a newer PC or I've seen a prompt in the program saying 'new version!', and I've found it very helpful. However, if this is the final direction that you are taking, and the PageEdit integration isn't any easier, I'll probably start looking elsewhere for my purposes.
Thanks for all your work on this program, for a free program it has been exactly what I've wanted, and I know that it takes a lot of work to keep something like this current and functional. I would take this outcry about the change as a compliment; people have come to really depend on it, which is not a bad thing.
Balentius