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Originally Posted by KevinH
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.
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It always comes down to this:
PageEdit/Sigil has powerful but not intuitive functionality (who would use an XHTML visual editor on an XML file containing no text?).
A problem with the WYSIWYG alternative is that none of them accept ePub as the main format. Possibly as a source file, but it is converted to another format.
And above all: None of them allow to alternate
easily between code editing and WYSIWYG.
This was the great strength of Sigil "Book view".
The more I think about it, the more the synergy of PageEdit/Sigil is a bad idea.
The real problem isn't that you wanted to get away from a WYSIWYG editor, it's a choice, but that you're maintaining a weird crutch.
Merge them. Find a way to merge them and cohabitate them in the same software.
I thank you for the voluntary development of Sigil, but really, I find that you're blinded yourself any think posibility because "I don't want to think about it" and that your policy is "walk or die" on YOUR choices.