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Old 02-12-2010, 06:39 PM   #3
Valloric
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Oh boy...

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I re-epubbed the dir (many thanks to the MR member who contributed the neat little applescript for zipping up a dir into proper epub format!) and read the resulting epub with Sigil. To my hair-tearing frustration it did not even read the entire document, but stopped after the first section. No error message, nothing. And the TOC of course contains only the structure up to that first section.
Relax.

You probably hit a bug somewhere. Read this wiki page, then create a new issue on the tracker.

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I'm beginning to have a real hate/hate relationship with Sigil -- it's slow as molasses to respond to text edits
I'm not disagreeing with you. It is slow. Just a few minutes ago I posted an analysis of the loading speed and how it has improved in the 0.2.0 version of Sigil.

The editing speed is directly linked to the size of the document loaded in the Book View. So that will be faster in 0.2.0 too.

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And btw, I introduced "chapter breaks" in Sigil while doing some wysi editing of the book, to get clean page breaks between subsections. Could this be mucking up the TOC recognition?
Should not have, but then again, I'd have to see the file.

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Calibre can read/view this epub in its entirety but with no TOC at all (more hair tearing) -- why does it "see" the doc differently from Sigil?
It's an entirely different application with entirely different behavior.

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Am I alone in finding Sigil rather opaque, feature-poor, and confusing?
The version number should tell you a lot: it's currently on 0.1.9. It's not even alpha software, meaning there's a long way to go.

It's written by an overstressed and overworked grad student who doesn't get nowhere near the amount of sleep he should.

I'm always open for suggestions, and even more for well-written patches.

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(And why is the "Preferences" menu option disabled, while I'm griping?)
Because a preferences screen has yet to be created. Again, it's 0.1.9. Bear with me.
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