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seanos · 09-17-2023, 02:31 AM

Yes, I created my own mess and it ruined my day.

I’m not suggesting editing the clips.ini is a good idea, but having it in an intelligible format would make it easier to debug when things go wrong. A format like “Name=Sengo\xed\xad\x64\x65lc/IPA” for “Name=Sengoídelc/IPA” is not easy to parse.

I did search for some documentation, but it seems like clips in PageEdit is too new. After experimenting with it a bit, I’m not a lot clearer on what it can and can’t do in comparison with Sigil. The example clips are exactly the same as the Sigil ones.

I’d just say that from the end-user perspective, it doesn’t seem totally unreasonable for there to be some amount of commonality between clips in Sigil and PageEdit, in how they work or interoperability. If this will never be true, it means I probably won’t use clips in PageEdit, which…is not a tragedy.

09-17-2023, 02:31 AM	#6
seanos Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 12 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Aura H2O, LG V20	Yes, I created my own mess and it ruined my day. I’m not suggesting editing the clips.ini is a good idea, but having it in an intelligible format would make it easier to debug when things go wrong. A format like “Name=Sengo\xed\xad\x64\x65lc/IPA” for “Name=Sengoídelc/IPA” is not easy to parse. I did search for some documentation, but it seems like clips in PageEdit is too new. After experimenting with it a bit, I’m not a lot clearer on what it can and can’t do in comparison with Sigil. The example clips are exactly the same as the Sigil ones. I’d just say that from the end-user perspective, it doesn’t seem totally unreasonable for there to be some amount of commonality between clips in Sigil and PageEdit, in how they work or interoperability. If this will never be true, it means I probably won’t use clips in PageEdit, which…is not a tragedy.