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JohnnyD · 09-21-2009, 07:14 AM

Hi Valloric,

first of all: thanks for Sigil, it looks like a perfect solution for creating epub documents.

I would like to share my first experiences, thoughts and wishes with Sigil:
- it's a bit slow when editing a document of 50 chapters (but if I'm correct, you're allready working on that)
- a css-editor would be very much appreciated! At this moment, I open up the epub file (after renaming it to .zip) to get access to the css file inside. Quite tedious and risky!
- something of a script engine would be nice, for example to automaticaly insert "drop capital" code at the start of every chapter
- font management (I'm not really sure about this, but my BeBook does not seem to find the Garamond font file which I copied to my Bebook font directory. However, when I manually include the font file in my epub file, it will display my Garamond text correctly). This would mean maintaining a font directory in the epub file and adjusting the css file accordingly.

Of course it is not my intention to get you to insert a css editor, script engine and font management right away, I more would like to have your (and others) opinion about these three points.

Cheers,
Johan.

09-21-2009, 07:14 AM	#164
JohnnyD Connoisseur Posts: 95 Karma: 72819 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Drenthe, The Netherlands Device: Cybook Gen3 (cracked screen)/Bebook/Nokia E60/Nokia 5800/Kobo Aura HD	Hi Valloric, first of all: thanks for Sigil, it looks like a perfect solution for creating epub documents. I would like to share my first experiences, thoughts and wishes with Sigil: - it's a bit slow when editing a document of 50 chapters (but if I'm correct, you're allready working on that) - a css-editor would be very much appreciated! At this moment, I open up the epub file (after renaming it to .zip) to get access to the css file inside. Quite tedious and risky! - something of a script engine would be nice, for example to automaticaly insert "drop capital" code at the start of every chapter - font management (I'm not really sure about this, but my BeBook does not seem to find the Garamond font file which I copied to my Bebook font directory. However, when I manually include the font file in my epub file, it will display my Garamond text correctly). This would mean maintaining a font directory in the epub file and adjusting the css file accordingly. Of course it is not my intention to get you to insert a css editor, script engine and font management right away, I more would like to have your (and others) opinion about these three points. Cheers, Johan.