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The other thing I do not understand is why people think the current MetaData editor is so bad?
To use Sigil, you need to know basic html coding and basic css coding. You need to understand the layout of an epub, you need to understand media types, and urls, you need to understand the function of an ncx and nav, and opf. You need to understand regular expressions for advanced search and replace. You need to understand clips. You may even need to understand some basic javascript for epub3.
So Why on earth do we expect people who understand all of that to have an issue with dc metadata and simple things like that?
I still think Sigil should cater less to wysiwyg newbies and focus more of helping users and epub developers do things quickly and efficiently that need to be done.
If newbie users want to edit just MetaData and not the book itself, there are a large number of tools including calibre's library management software will let them do that without them having to know anything about css or anything about html at all.
So do we really need a "simpler" front-end for basic metadata. I would think a tool that would allow the user to create and change advanced metadata would be more useful.
What am I missing?
Perhaps time spent on improving and updating the User's manual should be of higher priority?
Comments? Thoughts? What level should Sigil really be targeting?
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