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Old 10-18-2020, 06:08 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by BrowncoatCat View Post
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.
Coding your average novel into an ePub eBook is actually not complex. You don't need complicated layouts and complicated code to do what you wan to be done.

WYSIWYG editors for HTML code can produce some rather poor code. While you can use a WYSIWYG editor, you still have to validate the code and you are best to clean it up. It's actually more difficult to clean up the mess your WYSIWYG editor made.

Lean HTML/CSS and you'll find coding your eBook is not as hard as you think.
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