Edit Ebook -- WOW!

[treadlightly]

Yes! I was slowly trying to learn to use Sigil, but Edit Book is much more stream-lined. Thank you!

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

Yes! I was slowly trying to learn to use Sigil, but Edit Book is much more stream-lined.

???

Edit Book is (almost) a one-to-one copy of Sigil in the way it's used.

If you mean that it's more streamlined in the sense that you don't need to export books, then edit them, and re-import/replace them again, then you're right of course

[MizSuz]

I actually didn't realize that we'd lost support for Sigil until after I had downloaded and checked out the book editor in calibre. I was pleased to see it and hoped to spend a bit more time getting to know it in the future. I did, however, fall back to Sigil simply because it's my comfort zone.

I used to occasionally go to the Sigil forums in the hopes of prevailing upon smarter code monkeys (said as a term of endearment, not an epithet) than me with Regex expressions and had just done that when I realized that it's not being supported anymore.

I am very grateful that you have picked up the ball, Kovid. I use calibre and Sigil more than nearly any of my other software and, like others above, it is a rare thing for me not to at least make a few tweaks to a book. I also lay a lot of books out from scratch or near scratch.

I am grateful to continue to have a reliable piece of software with which to do these tasks.

I'm still gonna need hella help with regex. hahahaha

[MizSuz]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

???

Edit Book is (almost) a one-to-one copy of Sigil in the way it's used.

If you mean that it's more streamlined in the sense that you don't need to export books, then edit them, and re-import/replace them again, then you're right of course

The "open with" calibre plug-in enabled opening books directly from calibre and working on the version that is in calibre all ready. There was no need to use those multiple steps when using Sigil with calibre.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by MizSuz

I'm still gonna need hella help with regex. hahahaha

I believe the Regex doctor frequents this forum as well.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by MizSuz

The "open with" calibre plug-in enabled opening books directly from calibre and working on the version that is in calibre all ready. There was no need to use those multiple steps when using Sigil with calibre.

Hm. I never knew. Never noticed that plugin...

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Hm. I never knew. Never noticed that plugin...

Oh My! You have been missing out on a lot of easy access.

OW PI
you can have a second (3rd..) Viewer set for a format
Edit the cover used in Calibre with you editor of choice
Send it (the format) to the editor of choice. This is Sigil for me (which still has heavily used features that are yet to come)

[MizSuz]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I believe the Regex doctor frequents this forum as well.

Yay.

[treadlightly]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

???

Edit Book is (almost) a one-to-one copy of Sigil in the way it's used.

If you mean that it's more streamlined in the sense that you don't need to export books, then edit them, and re-import/replace them again, then you're right of course

I didn't export then re-import, but I don't have to browse for the file now, so yes, more streamlined! And maybe Sigil had the feature where you saw the code on one side and the print view on the other, but like I said, I was just learning how to use it so I didn't have that enabled. Edit Book had it enabled by default.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

I didn't export then re-import, but I don't have to browse for the file now, so yes, more streamlined! And maybe Sigil had the feature where you saw the code on one side and the print view on the other, but like I said, I was just learning how to use it so I didn't have that enabled. Edit Book had it enabled by default.

Book edit has a Preview pane. (Helps loads if you have dual Monitors )

You can only do very limited 'edit' operations there (Split), clicking the will 'sync' the edit (CV) screen fairly close

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

I didn't export then re-import, but I don't have to browse for the file now, so yes, more streamlined! And maybe Sigil had the feature where you saw the code on one side and the print view on the other, but like I said, I was just learning how to use it so I didn't have that enabled. Edit Book had it enabled by default.

Sigil actually goes a step further. It's WYSIWYG. You can enable the WYSIWYG view by double clicking on the tab of the file. (Obviously doesn't work with CSS code.)

Kovid has already said he will probably never implement that, as it's a lot of work to get right, and editing in WYSIWIG can make you accidentally remove underlying code, breaking the book (I've done it in Sigil...).

A preview pane is fine; edit code on one side, immediately see the result on the other side

A great benefit of this approach is that you will actually learn what the code you are changing does. Strangely enough, when using WYSIWYG, you're actually working blind, changing code you can't see. Very nice for a beginner, but after a book or two changing the code directly (using regex, and other nice stuff) becomes way faster.

[DoctorOhh]

Thank You Kovid on providing this excellent tool.

Originally Posted by theducks

Book edit has a Preview pane.

Since the Preview pane in Book Edit is what treadlightly was praising (emphasis above mine) I think treadlightly is aware of this.

[kovidgoyal]

You're welcome, everyone I am glad people like Edit Book so much. I certainly enjoyed developing it.

[icallaci]

Wow. Thank you.

[KayLee]

Oh thanks for the info runs off to find Edit Book feature! =)