Goodness! I didn't think my post posted AT ALL and I didn't want to rewrite all that, so I didn't, and went back to my problem. I just NOW got an email that it posted, so I came and found all this help. Thank you!!!
I actually solved it with close attention paid to the most excellent directions here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=248186
I also documented exactly what I did, so here's my readme that yes, does read like a kindergartner's book:
Quote:
There are TWO ZIP files for this.
EpubCheck_v0.4.7.1.zip -- The actual plugin that you insert into Sigil
epubcheck-5.3.0.zip -- The Java files that make the fucking thing run
The second one failed. The link above says to be connected to the internet so it can find the files, but maybe the link changed? I think. Not sure.
Anyway, I actually followed the directions (had to parse them, of course).
I had to extract the Java files from ZIP #2 (5.3.0) and put them in the actual plugin's folder. PATH: C:\Users\ebeet\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil\plugins\EpubCheck
DO NOT put the zip file, the primary epubcheck-5.3.0 folder, or the secondary epubcheck-5.3.0 in the EpubCheck plugin folder.
It WILL NOT automatically extract the zip file or the primary folder or the secondary folder.
Take ALL the files out of the secondary epubcheck-5.3.0 folder and put them in the EpubCheck plugin folder. That works.
In DOS:
1. Checked for Python. Not there.
2. Checked for Java. That was fine.
3. Updated a bunch of shit.
Then
4. Installed Python (but I don't know why I had to when it shows in the installed programs list).
5. Restarted.
6. Read the directions.
7. Unzipped epubcheck-5.3.0.zip
8. Put the files in the secondary epubcheck-5.3.0 extracted folder in the EpubCheck folder.
PATH: C:\Users\ebeet\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil\plugins\EpubCheck
All done.
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I really really really want to thank this community, even though I didn't slowly introduce myself AND I did the unthinkable and asked for help straight out of the gate, which is poor internet etiquette (hello, Usenet and IRC). I learned how to format ebooks when I published myself way back in 2008. I was doing a whole laundry list of formats back then: LIT, IMP, PDB, PRC/MOBI, HTML.
Then when Smashwords came online, I actually broke the meatgrinder. Twice. In the same weekend. That's how they figured out you couldn't upload HTML or RTF.
And so I hung out my shingle. I've been using Sigil since almost the very beginning, and let me tell you. I am sooooooo happy to be able to do only ONE format now (not including PDF, which is typesetting, not markup).
Self-publishing has come so far since I started (took a lot of heat for it too), but I know I can come back here and (probably) find the answer to any question I have.
Thank you so much!
PS Yes, I'm on Win10 and I intend to stay on it as long as I possibly can.
As for Linux, I was thinking about building a Linux box way back in 2000, and still haven't done it. My husband did build me a Hackintosh a few years ago, but then Dan Poynter gave me one of his old MacBooks, so I used that when I had to upload to iBooks.