09-02-2019, 02:23 PM | #1 |
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HELP with Sigil
I've downloaded the latest update to Sigil. The problem is that no everything is in HTML format. How do I correct it bACK to the regular format so that I can complete my Ebook? What steps do I take? What am I missing? I really need help!!!
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09-02-2019, 02:36 PM | #2 | |
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However, editing an epub using BookView has never been a good idea. Sigil was not designed as a WYSIWYG editor and you can get some very strange additions to the book code when using BookView to edit. I would suggest moving this thread to the Sigil forum. You might also want to browse a couple of threads in that forum: Where's Book View?, Sigil-0.9.17 Released and PageEdit-0.8.0 Released. |
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09-02-2019, 07:45 PM | #3 |
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Or just go back to a previous version of Sigil.
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09-02-2019, 09:52 PM | #4 |
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Yes, if you are not comfortable editing xhtml while seeing the result immediately in Preview, should should probably install an earlier version of Sigil.
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09-06-2019, 06:02 PM | #5 |
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I thought that I had posted to the Forum page.
Please excuse my ignorance on this matter. New to the forum and trying to get the structure. I was not trying to view my eBook with anything else. I understand that it's a WYSIWYG program. After I updated the software and opened it with my eBook in it...it was in an HTML format. I'm simply trying to get back to the WYSIWYG format. Should I delete ALL of my versions and reinstall a particular one?
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09-06-2019, 06:23 PM | #6 | |
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You have two choices:
1. Continue with using Sigil-0.9.18 and use the View menu to enable the Preview Window. Then edit the html and see the Preview window reflect your changes. If you want to do minor WYSIWYG editing, then install PageEdit.app and learn how to launch it and use it from Sigil or 2. If you do not know html, you will need to install Sigil-0.9.14 which is the last version to have BookView (WYSIWYG editing). Quote:
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09-06-2019, 06:28 PM | #7 | |
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But it's not. We removed all references to the word WYSIWYG from Sigil quite a while ago.
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The release notes for version 0.9.14 clearly indicated that it would be the last version to support QtWebKit, and the last version to support editing with Book View. https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...ses/tag/0.9.14 |
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09-12-2019, 03:35 AM | #8 | |
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It will still take years for software comparison sites to stop talking about Sigil as such. So we're going to hear about BookView for quite some time. This is also why I don't understand why PageEdit is not integrated as a module in Sigil. Currently, installing and using PageEdit is not easy. He is the son of BookView who was what set Sigil apart from other ePub publishers. |
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09-12-2019, 06:24 AM | #11 | |
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As for installing and using PageEdit not being "easy" ... Well that's just hogwash. Installing PageEdit is just as easy as installing Sigil. If not more so (less questions/choices on Windows--just double-click it and say "yes"). PageEdit is not the "son" of Book View. It's not the next iteration of Book View. It will never be what Book View was--it was never intended to be. And it will certainly never be incorporated back into Sigil. If you need/want it; install it separately. As to Book View being what "set Sigil apart from the rest" ... more hogwash. Book View can't simultaneously be an application's defining feature AND be unused by a significant portion of its user-base. No. What sets Sigil off from the rest is that it allows you to actually edit an epub. The rest (with the exception of calibre's editor) are word processors (or word processor add-ons) that allow you to export an epub (but don't actually support opening and editing the epubs they export). We could have dumped Book View with absolutely no alternative and said "tough sh!t". But we didn't. Funny how those who only want to carp never seem to appreciate that. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-12-2019 at 09:07 AM. |
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09-12-2019, 02:48 PM | #13 |
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PageEdit may look and act a lot like Book View. It may feel almost as integrated into Sigil as Book View was - particularly with the new 'open the OPF file' trick. And I wouldn't be surprised if the integration gets even more seamless in future versions. But it is very important to the developers that you realise it is a Completely Separate Program. As, indeed, it is.
Don't argue. Essentially, you've got Book View back. If you really want to use Sigil as a bad WYSIWYG word processor rather than a good epub editor (and that's not really fair, Book View had its uses even for those of us who worked mostly in Code View) you can. Enjoy! Last edited by exaltedwombat; 09-12-2019 at 08:56 PM. |
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