Thread: Sigil, the ePub editor
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Old 08-03-2009, 08:07 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by Valloric View Post
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.
I noticed that, but it may also be interesting to see only one file, and not the whole flow at once.

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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.
Well, I meant the ability to separately edit the CSS files, and decide what styles go in each file, etc.

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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.
Can't XHTML and CSS validators be modified? Even if the specs are different, being able to use the standard validators would probably be useful. And in the meantime just using epub-chek would be of help.

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The file-as attribute is already supported.
But it's not separately editable. For instance, I like to have "P. G. Wodehouse" as author and "Wodehouse, Pelham Grenvile" as file-as.

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When someone thinks of a few other users would enjoy too, I'll add them.
I was thinking of adding a generic "date" and make the "event" property editable.

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I don't want to set anything automatically for the user. Although this could be user-selectable in an options screen.
Of course, I meant it would be optionally automatic

By the way. In dates it is possible to store only year or year and month information (not day), but it seems Sigil defaults to 01 when day or month are missing (i.e, "1950" is displayed as "01-01-1950"). I think that should be fixed (I know, I'll add an issue )
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