Have you even bothered to set PageEdit as Sigil's preferred external xhtml editor in Sigil's Preferences and give it a try?
You can then open the opf in Sigil, and hit the External Editor icon and have the complete contents of the spine available to edit in PageEdit with a wysiwyg interface that is very very close to what BookView offered.
In fact, there is very little that the old BookView can do that can't be done in PageEdit and even some new things that can be done only in PageEdit.
And as others have pointed out, you can always just stay with the older Sigil releases that had BookView, as all releases are available on our github page.
But as DiapDealer said, BookView is never coming back as it allowed users to too easily create bad code that might be okay in html browsers, but that certainly is not okay in an epub that is going to be published.
With PageEdit, once you close, you return to Sigil where you have the chance to see any errors and fix them. But this typically requires some knowledge of xhtml and its rules.
KevinH
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Originally Posted by BrowncoatCat
I'm sorry for ranting on my first post in this forum but:
I have used Sigil to convert three of my novel to eBooks. It was brilliant. Now I find its functionality has been reduced to that of a chocolate teatpot by removing PageEdit into a separate piece of software.
People in the real world who want to visually lay out a visual product like a book do not want to learn reams of complex coding. They just want to get the job done.
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