Where's Book View?

[DiapDealer]

https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/tips/#...is-really-gone

Why it was removed ... WYSIWYG editing is live HTML (not XHTML) editing internal to the browser engine (Chrome in this case that is embedded in QtWebEngine) and not under our control. It can and often does generate code that appears to work but is NOT valid xhtml required by epub and will not pass flightcrew or epubcheck that most publishers require.

The illegal code that can be generated by the old BookView was a constant source of pain that consumed much energy and took away from Sigil development itself. Since it is internal to the QWebEngine browser engine we can not fix or change how it operates.

Therefore we removed BookView and replaced it with a separate tool (PageEdit) for those who still want some of that functionality that may be still useful for final proofing and very minor edits.

Using CodeView and Preview mode will allow epub developers to see the impact of their code changes immediately without the need to toggle back and forth. That way correct xhtml can be generated and epubcheck detected errors can be easily tracked down and fixed. These were determined to be more important for the majority of professional epub developers.

[KevinH]

Instructions for Installing PageEdit

Directly stolen and updated from this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3889662

That old view was called "Book View". The developer mode is called "Code View".

Book View has been taken out, because it was very buggy... and it couldn't be salvaged any more.

If you want to get similar functionality to Book View, KevinH and Diap have created a different tool called PageEdit:

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit/releases

What you want to do is:

1. Download the latest version of PageEdit from the link above.

2. Double click the download and it will extract a program called PageEdit.

3. Move that PageEdit folder to some location you'll remember. For Windows something Like:

C:/Programs/PageEdit

4. Open Sigil, and go to Edit > Preferences > General Settings. At the very bottom, you should see a box that says "Set your preferred alternative external xhtml editor".

Press the Browse button, and go find that folder you put PageEdit in:

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5. Select PageEdit.exe, and then you can press OK button and get back to Sigil.

6. Now, at the very top of Sigil, you'll see a little button that looks like a X with a pencil on it:

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That will open up PageEdit, and now you can use that similar to how to used Book View. When you are done, be sure to X out of PageEdit, and all your changes will get pushed back to Sigil.

And the last version of Sigil with BookView built in is Sigil-0.9.14 which is available on our GitHub Sigil Release page.