[Valloric]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

Are you planning to add support for Mobipocket OPF files?

Mobipocket support is a bit down the line. Sigil needs to be a competent ePub editor before it tries being a multi-format editor.

Originally Posted by Kirtai

Looks really nice. I'm curious though, do you think it'll ever support DAISY format ePubs?

You mean DTBook? Definitely not anytime soon, if ever.

Originally Posted by darkmonk

There were however some further features that would add much functionality.
Spell check - every author needs this, if they are using only sigil to make their books.
Tables - now I think this is important. I often have tables in my documents, and it would be good to keep having them.

So those are the two big things I think could be added.

Add enhancement requests for these on the tracker.

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Ah, i re-edited that file as i needed it to work.
I'll try to reproduce it.

Please do.

Originally Posted by FrancisT

Running on Xubuntu 9.0.4 with Qt 4.5 (allegedly but not explicitly installed) and with no Calibre I get the followiing error:

error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On my other Xubuntu 9.04 mchine - with calibre 0.6x installed - I do not get this error. I assume there is a library downloded somewhere that is not in the default Xubuntu setup. I'm sure i can figure out what the difference is but I figure this might be of interest to others

Please install Qt explicitly . I believe calibre will install Qt for you if you don't already have it.

Originally Posted by Jellby

I opened an ePUB with Sigil and it looks like it makes it a single long text flow. Adding a view for separate files would be
fine.

The flow is separated by "chapter breaks" (they look like red double lines). These mark where the flow will be split into multiple XHTML documents. If you load in an ePub comprised of several XHTML files, they will be respected: chapter breaks will be inserted where one file stopped and the other began. So you don't loose anything. You just gain the ability to edit everything all at once.

Originally Posted by Jellby

A CSS editor would be welcome too.

You can edit the CSS code in the Code View. Every style tag will be exported as a separate CSS file, and every separate CSS file loaded gets loaded as a style tag.

Originally Posted by Jellby

And validators.

I can't just use XHTML and CSS validators since the epub spec is a bit different from the vanilla versions. I plan on writing an epub checking library (kinda like epub-check, only in C++... and hopefully better). This is a very large sub-project so you won't see anything soon.

Originally Posted by Jellby

It looks like the TOC editor is dependent on HTML tags, that's fine for a start, but it should allow more flexibility, like adding arbitrary TOC entries and directly editing the TOC tree (the depth of each entry).

This will be possible with time. The TOC editor you have almost wasn't included in the 0.1.0 release.

Originally Posted by Jellby

Is there a way to add linear="no" to spine items?

Not yet.

Originally Posted by Jellby

In the metadata editor, it should be possible to specify whether Author, Illustrator, etc. are "creator" or "contributor", and the file-as property.

Currently the author is listed as the creator and everybody else as a contributor.

The file-as attribute is already supported. If you type in a name with a comma ("Doe, John") that name will be directly written to the file-as attribute and the inverted form ("John Doe") will be written as the value. This works with imported books, too (the file-as attribute is copied to the Meta Editor).

Originally Posted by Jellby

I see it includes date of creation, date of modification, etc. probably other user-configurable events would be useful too

When someone thinks of a few other users would enjoy too, I'll add them. But the other events could be added on a per-user basis from an options screen. Make an issue for this.

Originally Posted by Jellby

(and set date of modification automatically upon saving the file?)

I don't want to set anything automatically for the user. Although this could be user-selectable in an options screen. Make an issue for this.