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Hi Valloric,
I really appreciate your input. I honestly meant no criticism of Sigil, nor am I underestimating its value -- just trying to reality-check my own limited understanding of it. Every piece of software has its strengths and best purposes, and I've found from my own experience -- especially when one doesn't quite know what he's doing yet -- that it's easy to end up using a screwdriver to bang in a metaphorical nail.
So in my inexperience, it seemed to me that Sigil's greatest strength was to give access to editing the code of previously-formatted text; which means I need to understand how the coding works, which is where I was at when I opened this thread. I haven't yet figured out how to use some of the software's features, and that's going to take me time. I haven't figured out how to import graphics and place them and wrap text and the like in Sigil, WYSIWYG interface or no, and with the absence of text editing features like Find/Replace and spelling checker, it's easier for me to do those sorts of things in a desktop publishing program. For me, Sigil seems better used for modifying styles of an ePub once it's compiled, splitting documents into chapters, and compiling a finished ePub.
But please, let me know what I've missed. I'm genuine about wanting to learn.
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