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democrite · 01-02-2020, 08:08 PM

Concerning TOC editing, I think a button that can expand or collapse to a particular level may be sufficient. If for example one sets expansion to H1, for multi-select one can either use modifier keys as is done in file managers and other lists, or shift-up and down arrow. Existing controls would behave as is, acting on selection. Sometimes TOC editing via regex is much work as somewhat often publishers may use paragraph classes and generating as such would create a blank TOC. If I need a fair amount of editing, I may replace them with headers, but if the TOC is mostly as I would like, editing is sufficient. One example, in cases such as when chapters are H1 when the should be H2, e.g. Book 1 -> Chapter 1, viewing collapsed as H1 and then moving via multi-select would be what seems to be most efficient.

Indeed as I am starting to think about Sigil as such – what can be borrowed from various editors and apps –, to someday envision and create the most refined EPUB editor possible, I hope such things may someday, added over time, make editing a true joy and bring moments of wow, I cannot believe how simple is such and such action. As one thinks of such, various things come to mind such as right clicking on the author field in the OPF, being context aware, and selecting add file-as. EPUB is in a way a set of code, and there is much that can be taken from the most feature rich IDEs to bring ease of editing, navigation, proofing, etc. There may be others such as Sublime and TextMate for macOS but for me, Intellij is the standard by which all else is measured.

Concerning the convert to EPUB 3 plugin, I am curious under what conditions there may be data loss. No issues that I've seen though maybe there could have been in the past and it'd be nice to know if possible when such may occur.

01-02-2020, 08:08 PM	#111
democrite Evangelist Posts: 441 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	Concerning TOC editing, I think a button that can expand or collapse to a particular level may be sufficient. If for example one sets expansion to H1, for multi-select one can either use modifier keys as is done in file managers and other lists, or shift-up and down arrow. Existing controls would behave as is, acting on selection. Sometimes TOC editing via regex is much work as somewhat often publishers may use paragraph classes and generating as such would create a blank TOC. If I need a fair amount of editing, I may replace them with headers, but if the TOC is mostly as I would like, editing is sufficient. One example, in cases such as when chapters are H1 when the should be H2, e.g. Book 1 -> Chapter 1, viewing collapsed as H1 and then moving via multi-select would be what seems to be most efficient. Indeed as I am starting to think about Sigil as such – what can be borrowed from various editors and apps –, to someday envision and create the most refined EPUB editor possible, I hope such things may someday, added over time, make editing a true joy and bring moments of wow, I cannot believe how simple is such and such action. As one thinks of such, various things come to mind such as right clicking on the author field in the OPF, being context aware, and selecting add file-as. EPUB is in a way a set of code, and there is much that can be taken from the most feature rich IDEs to bring ease of editing, navigation, proofing, etc. There may be others such as Sublime and TextMate for macOS but for me, Intellij is the standard by which all else is measured. Concerning the convert to EPUB 3 plugin, I am curious under what conditions there may be data loss. No issues that I've seen though maybe there could have been in the past and it'd be nice to know if possible when such may occur. Last edited by democrite; 01-02-2020 at 08:29 PM.