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Calibre is more a library management tool with some conversion capabilities and Sigil an ePUB creation/editing tool. Both totally different. |
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12-22-2012, 11:45 AM | #47 |
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Maybe not e-ink exactly, with its super-long battery life. But since a Nexus 7 came into my household, I'm afraid the Kindle isn't getting a lot of use. The daily charge isn't a problem, especially as it tops up through the same mini-USB connector your phone probably uses. (Apple are so silly, using a non-standard connecter,)
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12-22-2012, 12:04 PM | #48 |
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i see no market for coloured e-ink
I reckon that the "e-books in colour" fans will use tablets - android, apple, MS windows 8... - as part of a general shift to multimedia "books" with embedded audio, video.... latest tablets offer "retina display" quality as the expense of some eye strain & shorter battery life, & publishers can package the book with the movie of the book, or the book of the movie; and can offer the graphic comic for the literary challenged, the audio book for the visually challenged... there is just so much more scope to sell stuff to a tablet owner, compared with a hypothetical colour e-book owner. The commercial failure of 10 inch e-readers like K2 also suggest a shift to tablets/netbooks.. for business users single-purpose dedicated e-book readers will continue in B&W , expect the laggards to add back light to their range to compete with paperwhite & nook glow, or to quit the marketplace ( Sony don't seem to know what to do! ) |
12-22-2012, 12:35 PM | #49 |
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I bought my little PRS-300 with a cover with a light all included in the price of the reader. Works on a separate battery, so it doesn't run the book battery down.
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12-22-2012, 02:55 PM | #50 | ||
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What I ment was the link's to other quotes in the material source shown above, if I copy parts out of the ebooks, or magazines, they don't work anymore in word. Kindle is a very nice ebook reader nothing else. Not of any use for me out of different reason I mentioned along this thread. Quote:
FOR THIS SIGIL IS "ALMOST" PERFECT !!! That's because we're just in the beginning of epub's. Just look above and beyond what is needed now. Who thought about a PC / Tablet combination with touch screen like the WIN Surface Pro a couple of years ago? Nobody (well maybe Bill Gates). This is like SIGIL for me if you would add just some simple tools more for a "non HTML" end user like me. Sigil would become useful for more people in the future then you may think in the moment. |
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12-23-2012, 01:18 AM | #51 |
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I still don't get
1. how you can expect to cut out bits of a book & still expect internal links to quotes etc to still work. Even if we solved your highlighting issue, that would not work ??? 2. why you need to preserve the links anyway - if the link is say to a foot note you just cut out & paste the footnote in-line. I recall when I was at school how some kids would copy their homework assignments straight out of an encyclopaedia, & not realise that leaving in stuff like ( see also page 69) was a dead giveaway. |
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Now if I could highlight the footnote in yellow and write maybe my own comment behind it and mark it in blue.... lol just joking. But I can still copy it into word after adding the footnotes for further refinement . That works fine for me in the moment. Thanks again. Quote:
I can say my problem is solved and I like to give thanks to everybody taking the time to help a simple user to enjoy Sigil even more. |
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12-23-2012, 01:43 PM | #53 | |||
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Using the clips in Book View isn't straightforward. But after reading the comments in the thread I took another look, and, funnily enough getting them to partly work was actually not too involved (after all the previous work to get the javascript right for inserting ids, etc. of course). But Book View will not support much with this first approach and will not give you the control you have in Code View. So you can use <span...>\1</span> entries ok, but <div> tags will be ignored and <p> tags get mangled if the whole paragraph isn't selected. You can also end up with extra nbsp entities. It might be possible to work around this with some heavier scripting (to avoid for example trying to insert a div tag inside a p tag), but at the moment, if it stays, we'll just warn that Book View clips can only use simple tags like span, etc., if it A way to provide buttons and/or shortcuts is interesting. I actually had buttons for clips on the toolbar at one point just to see if it was possible (it was), but took them off in favour of the context menu. I'll look into adding them again if it still seems ok - a lot is different since clips first went in. Possibly we'll turn a specific clip group or the top level clips into buttons. Although it may be that buttons aren't necessary with the new Clip window since you can single click them from a list. Shortcuts if added may be limited to 5 or 10 probably manually defined in the shortcut preferences - not sure if they'll have to match the buttons. Another option is to handle it like the Clipboard History - a shortcut to open the new Clip window and then 0-9 to select a clip. Something to experiment with - but suggestions welcome. Did you know you could use the current Clips with keyboard only - just use the shortcut to open the window, type the first few letters, tab to paste, and esc to close the window. Not too much of a shortcut, but its something and gives you an idea of what they might be like. And all of this discussion of Clips ties into consideration of a CSS styles dropdown or list feature - a list of styles defined in the CSS files. Given the flexibility of Clips, and the difficulty with CSS styles (when to apply, what to actually apply, etc.) its likely that we may not won't implement a CSS styles dropdown/list since we already have Clips. |
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I'd nice if you added an extra Highlight Misspelled Words check box there or simply added a No Spellcheck option to Dictionary drop-down box. Quote:
How about implementing clip selection via a shortcut key and the clip number (without displaying the Clip window first). E.g. CTRL+ALT+0 selects the fist clip in the list, CTRL+ALT+1 the second one etc.? |
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The clips have multiple levels I just put the frequently used ones at the top (or on the fist sub level of the top item) |
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Fortunately its setup so you can use multi-levels if you want them, and completely ignore them if you don't want them. |
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Currently there are only two options that can be toggled via menu options: Format > Heading > Preserve Eexisting Attributes Tool > Spellcheck > Highlight Misspelled Words I'm not a software developer, but, IMHO, it would simply be more consistent and probably less confusing to put all options in a Preferences dialog box and use sub-menu entries only for commands. Great! I'm sure you'll come up with a solution that'll make clips even more useful. Quote:
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If those readers behaved as intended (as intended, that is, by the spec and the users), they would obey "font-variant" and use real small-caps if available or fake them otherwise. |
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After all, Sigil is an ePub2 compliant editor not an ADE compliant editor. |
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