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Originally Posted by Valloric
Sarcasm is rarely helpful.
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My apologies, no sarcasm was intended. I have written a lot of GUI apps that were not for newbies at all, just convenience-tools for people who had to have expert knowledge well in hand before using the tool. So it makes sense to me that a tool can be GUI without being at all intended for newbies, and I would accept such a tool and bring to it different expectations than I'd bring to something intended to hand-hold the clueless. (And when it comes to epubs, as I've made embarrassingly clear, I am still firmly situated in the ranks of the clueless).
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And how many desktop applications do you know that do this?
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Well I have written a few in my time that pre-loaded required fields in saved structures (FITS headers, for example) with reasonable default values -- or with obviously bogus boilerplate values like "NO_OBJECT_NAME" or "?????". Or would refuse to save a data structure unless all required elements had been defined. But it's not that important. There's a proper way to use Sigil effectively (or an idiosyncratic way that will meet my own individual needs) and I'll get used to it.
Mostly, I'm sorry to have given the impression of sarcasm -- and offence -- when being quite serious and having friendly rather than baiting intent. Apologies again. Tone is difficult to convey -- with or without smileys -- and I seem to have conveyed an unintended tone here.
I've succeeded in making my epub compliant; I now know how to generate toc.ncx using Sigil (this alone is worth a bit of learning curve!); I now know which metadata fields are required for a well-formed content.opf; and I can move on to final proofing for those last few blankety-blank OCR errors. Everyone's been very helpful and all the patient n00b-education is much appreciated.