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Turtle91 · 10-10-2022, 08:33 AM

I'm pretty sure the first couple of words answered your question:
"Definitely do not recommend writing in Sigil..."

I also said you could use one of those authoring suites (such as Scribus)... if you wanted to take advantage of special organization for authors type features...

and then concluded that L. O. (the text editor you are currently using) would be just fine to use...just make sure you setup AND USE the styles....after you are done writing the book in LO, then you can import it into Sigil for final cleanup and making it into an ePub.

If you have a different question, please elucidate.

No, you cannot, directly, make a physical book with Sigil. Sigil makes ePubs. You could technically take the ePub made by Sigil and convert it into some printable format...but I would just use your LO source document (with the correctly used styles) to print to PDF or somesuch.

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Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,367 Karma: 20212733 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	I'm pretty sure the first couple of words answered your question: "Definitely do not recommend writing in Sigil..." I also said you could use one of those authoring suites (such as Scribus)... if you wanted to take advantage of special organization for authors type features... and then concluded that L. O. (the text editor you are currently using) would be just fine to use...just make sure you setup AND USE the styles....after you are done writing the book in LO, then you can import it into Sigil for final cleanup and making it into an ePub. If you have a different question, please elucidate. No, you cannot, directly, make a physical book with Sigil. Sigil makes ePubs. You could technically take the ePub made by Sigil and convert it into some printable format...but I would just use your LO source document (with the correctly used styles) to print to PDF or somesuch. Last edited by Turtle91; 10-10-2022 at 08:35 AM.