[bobcdy]

Well, I finally tried using v0.2.0 beta 3 yesterday, and I must say I was impressed
with its speed! I cheated a bit, in that first I created the initial ebook coding with Microsoft Word and Notepad++, and then created an imageless epub file with Sigil v0.1.9 - my usual procedure for ebook creation. However, this time the book I was working on had 4 full size grayscale images, plus nearly 30 additional smaller images, and I quickly found that v0.1.9 was far too slow. Using v0.2.0 to add the images and edit formatting proved to be a really great advance over using only the older version for equivalent tasks.

The new version still has the habit of trashing many paragraphs of text if a mistake is made in the xhtml coding - for example, I entered <span class="indent - without the final "> and for that error v. 0.2.0 created many text additions starting with <span class where they should not be - required deleting almost an entire page of text and copying/pasting a replacement text section from the notepad++ backup. It would be nice if an error notice was generated rather than trashing.

Thanks, Valloric, for fine work on the new version. Before using it I was a bit uncertain about its value, but it really is an improvement over the older version for complex epubs. I intend to use it whenever I run into problems with 0.1.9.