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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yeah, but I have desert friends who try to convince me that their 100° dry weather is more comfortable than my 93° and humid. I've been to the desert. I'm calling B.S. Hot's hot. It's like asking the potsticker whether it prefers death by steam or frying pan.  |
I live in that oven--the desert SW of the USA. You're right. It's an idiotic thing to say. Yes, there's some accuracy to the tolerability of heat that's dry, versus heat that's wet; breathing is easier, sans the humidity. But aside from that, when it's 118F, nobody gives two shets about how comfy our brethren in St. Louis are, for example. It's just bloody hot.
I nearly scorched my nethers, yesterday, doing naught but making a run to our mailbox, which is 1/2 mile from my home. All well and good to stroll to it in the winter, but in the summer, no, thanks. My batmobile is temporarily living on the driveway, due to some miscellany showing up and occupying her residency in the garage, and OMFG, I'm lucky my damn skin wasn't stuck to the leather when I disembarked.
Hot is hot.
Now, back to our scheduled topic:
Nexo wrote:
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As an author, I always dreamed of a tool that would offer the possibility to write an eBook directly within an eBook editor, because I am not interested in technical issues, but want to write, save - and have an eBook. As long as the publishing channel is eBook only, I do not see any sense in writing the book in a word processor and then waste my time converting and adjusting the code.
I met Sigil only a few weeks ago - and my wildest dreams seemed to come true, because Sigil does exactly that. I wrote my last book directly in Sigil. There ist not much missing for the perfect writer's tool - just find & replace and spell checking in Book View. I am sure: If Sigil would add this functionality, many more professional authors would love to use it.
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Well, as an author, you oughtn't give two hoots about how the sausage is eventually made. However,
as a self-publisher, you do. As a commercial formatter, I run into this all the time; authors want a magic tool, where they can type their books, hit a button, and PRESTO!, out comes a perfectly formatted ebook,
with no application of skill, knowledge, or money. How
nice that that's
your dream.
I mean...
I dream of a world where I can sit at my keyboard, just push a few buttons, and out comes a perfect mystery novel! With no skill, knowledge, or money! After all, that's the same exact thing, right? I want to do the same thing that writers do, without knowing HOW. Nothing wrong with that,
right???????
/sarcasm. 
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Unfortunately, for the "dream," eBooks are
not simply the result of word-processors; if they were, all those magic programs would already exist. In my experience--which is vast, in terms of viewing the manuscripts of those authors, over the last decade (I've just sent out my
6,447th quote...), I do not see one manuscript, not
one, out of 100, in which authors
have bothered to even learn the concepts of styles or headings. Without that knowledge, then no magic tool is usable, because
the fundamental concepts of HTML rule the reality of eBooks. It's the fundamental reality of word-processors, too, which are built in HTML, under the hood.
You can do
exactly what you want to do, @nexo, using Word or OO or AWP, or any number of WPs.
All you have to do, as Kevin correctly pointed out, is use your Word processor correctly. That's it. Use your own word processor--which, conveniently, will have spellcheck for you--and then export it to HTML and put it in Sigil. Go from there. Alternatively, use AWP. Write in the word processor, push a button, and out comes an eBook. Only $40.00. Practically FREE.
That's it. That's ALL you have to do. If you can learn to use Styles and headings, you'll be fine. Magic accomplished.
Hitch