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I've just looked at the beginning of Guido Henkel's book, and at his blog:
http://guidohenkel.com/2010/12/take-...ok-formatting/ Can't say I'm very impressed. He's purporting to 'solve' a lot of problems that would never arise in a document properly laid out in a word processor. And if you can't cope with paragraph and header styles in a WP, how are you suddenly going to grasp CSS and HTML styling in Sigil? "However, I have never seen a book where the font size suddenly jumped, where the font face suddenly changed, where indentations were all over the place or where paragraph adjustments switched from justified to right ragged halfway through a page. Since the dawn of eBooks, however, these things have become prevalent What's even more worrisome is the fact that to many authors this seems to be completely acceptable." |
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Oh look....Drama.
I have only been asking very specific questions, not asking for opinions. Since I was posting in the section for Sigil, it seemed to reason that the choice of using Sigil was to be accepted and a non-issue. I'll be more careful from now on. Anyway, attached is a cute kitty for your effort. |
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'How do I do this in Sigil' is perfectly legitimately answered by 'Well, Sigil' might not be the best tool.'
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Or simply use Find & Replace (Sigil has regular expression support) and clips to change to using the proper header tags. Then creating the ToC will be very easy and as an added bonus, reading software will better be able to follow the structure for those with Accessibility concerns. That is why good xhtml tries to identify structure with tags, and reserves css for styles.
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BTW, Calibre does have a way to extract info for headings using regular expressions built right into it. I do not like it because it allows ebook devs to not use headings to indicate structure at all (and thus hurts Accessibility) but it could be useful if you do not feel confident enough with Find and Replace using Regular Expressions to add in the actual headings.
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Oh, yes,you're right. It would be unforgivably presumptuous for people who've done thousands of eBooks to have the ummitigated nerve to comment that something you're doing, or following, might be woefully out of date, or cause you more work than is needed--like incorrectly not using heading classes for your headings. Bad Wombat! :-) Hitch |
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Still going off memory, but I think he recommends that roundtripping thing of copying your entire MSS into a separate text file to rip out all the styling. That's actually sorta disastrous if you DID set up your Word file with proper styles. So, just kinda take guidance from that source with a grain of salt. Again, acknowledging I may be misremembering, and also it's possible the book has different info compared to the blog guide. I never looked at the book, but I did poke around on the blog some years ago. |
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Firstly, it's from 2014 and even if it was brilliant then, we've all moved light years beyond that in the last 6 years. I'm not going to get into whether Guido's Guide was great or not; I do remember, with some...asperity...his blithe assertion that as far back as 2010, you could use ems to size images for Kindle, a claim he made on his website and NEVER backed up when challenged. (And, in case anyone is confused, most certainly did not work then and didn't for years. And is still dicey for images for Kindle today, too, but...) Given the significant, nay, sea-changes in eBook formatting since 2014, personally, I'd be seeking more up-to-date info, but, hey, that's just me. Hitch |
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The problem is that a lot of eBooks do not use the best practices. So if you learn from commercial eBooks, you will not learn all the proper ways to do things.
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Whether you think it is good idea or not is irrelevant. That's how just how it is it is. Major props to those who have made an effort to contribute to the guide, but it just doesn't really matter how we ultimately make it available. Easy or hard, people (except the handful I previously praised) won't contribute. They'd much rather complain about it being out of date (or hard to contribute to) than actually knuckling down and helping bring it up to date. *shrug* But it HAS to be in a git repository. Otherwise we'd have to read the whole guide each and every time someone made a small change just to make sure they didn't inadvertently break something somewhere else. The github repo allows us to see exactly the change that's being proposed (at the code-level) at a glance before signing off on it. The alternative is to have multiple people making multiple changes to multiple copies of the same epub that we then have to figure out how to integrate without losing anything (and without wasting hours of time that could be better spent actually working on Sigil). No thanks. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-25-2020 at 12:51 PM. |
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