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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
How would you style any of it without styling ALL of it?
Not that I think it's relevant to slow loading times or anything.
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My books are complex in subject and to an extent layout, so the last thing I want to do is monkey around changing fonts and styling within the body! I am focused entirely on content and I think that is why my books sell so well. It is also why I use Sigil.
I tried exporting to ePub from Word and Google Docs and while both work, the resulting files are offensive in their bloat and complexity. HTML, CSS and Sigil are so straightforward to use that it's hard to see why anyone would use anything else (thank you. Mr Sigil).
I style the body tag and that is all I need. One way and another, my entire book needs only the 4 headings, 3 classes of image and body text.
Last - and most important, I have solved the speed problem. The images I use are mastered as tiff or psd in Photoshop and then exported as jpg to my image folder from where I do the import. I put all the images I will use into a folder on their own and then just import the lot to Sigil. I had left half a dozen large PSD files in the folder by mistake and then imported them. I found them neatly tucked away in Misc while exploring to find the problem. Sigil was spending some time working out what to do with them, I would guess. I'm rather impressed that it didn't just crash or stick on 'Not Responding', actually.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.