Sigil v0.1.5 - Page 2

zelda_pinwheel · 11-25-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Valloric

Haha, holidays... a lovely concept. But no, work.

you have my sympathies. good luck ! (holidays is purely conceptual in my world too)

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It was necessary before because typing with no hard line breaks would cause the line to reflow, and on long lines this was causing large slowdowns. New performance improvements have remedied that.

It is a lot nicer now, I agree.

ha okay, i didn't realise it was for performance reasons. i'm glad you've got it all sorted now, though.

mtravellerh · 11-25-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

you have my sympathies. good luck ! (holidays is purely conceptual in my world too)

Same here!

Say, somehow I can't edit the TOC via TOC editor anymore? Did you change something in the handling? Things load and save a lot faster now, though!

Work speed is enhanced enormously with a proper S&R now!

Valloric · 11-25-2009, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mtravellerh

Say, somehow I can't edit the TOC via TOC editor anymore? Did you change something in the handling?

Just tried it here, and it works as expected. Try to isolate the problem and create an issue on the tracker with the epub and steps necessary to reproduce.

But I didn't change anything in the TOC related to heading updates. All I did was make the TOC window remember its size and position across invocations.

Valloric · 11-25-2009, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by afv011

Great work Valloric!

Just a note for others running Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 in my case), I had to delete my previous version (0.13) manually, otherwise the install would fail at the "preparing uninstall" stage.

How did I miss this post?

Anyway, did you uninstall the previous one or did you just try to install over an existing installation? You should always run the uninstaller first. In the folder where Sigil is installed, there's an "uninstall" executable (on Linux). Run that as root before installing a new release.

You won't lose any of your stored settings, like window sizes and positions, toolbar positions, last used zoom factors, recent files list etc...

Diana495 · 11-26-2009, 06:37 AM

I'm having a slight problem with the Search function. When I do a search and click the Find Next button, the word gets found and highlighted, but it doesn't jump to it, and I have to scroll down to find the highlighted word.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

And thank you so much for Sigil! It makes ebook reading so much easier.

ETA: Nevermind! I figured it out. I had Sigil at 130% zoom. I changed it back to 100%, and now when I click Find Next, it jumps to the next word. Just ignore me.

EowynCarter · 11-26-2009, 01:18 PM

Ah, sigil won't open .epub if they have been renamed .zip.

Keep on the good job valoric, and tanks for this wonderfull tool

Valloric · 11-26-2009, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Ah, sigil won't open .epub if they have been renamed .zip

Well of course it won't. A zip file is a zip file, and an epub file is an epub file. An importer subclass is chosen based on the file extension, and Sigil doesn't have a clue what to do with a zip file. Nor should it.

EowynCarter · 11-26-2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Valloric

Well of course it won't. A zip file is a zip file, and an epub file is an epub file. An importer subclass is chosen based on the file extension, and Sigil doesn't have a clue what to do with a zip file. Nor should it.

Mime type maybe ?
It just bugged me, as i hadn't seen the wrong extention at first.

Valloric · 11-26-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Mime type maybe?

And there's a universal way of extracting a mime type from a file on disk? A way not based on the file's extension? For most/all file types?

EowynCarter · 11-26-2009, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Valloric

And there's a universal way of extracting a mime type from a file on disk? A way not based on the file's extension? For most/all file types?

I think some brower do, linux find a way without extentions too. Then, both might shows as "zip archive", so total fail there. Don't know.
Ah, if i take off extention alltogether, linux say "e-book document".

Krystian Galaj · 11-27-2009, 08:49 AM

Many programs recognize file type based on content. Most file formats have fixed headers, easy to recognize. There could even be a GPL library for that lying around.

Valloric · 11-27-2009, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Many programs recognize file type based on content. Most file formats have fixed headers, easy to recognize. There could even be a GPL library for that lying around.

I am aware of this, yes. But it's such a trivial thing that brings so little to the end user and requires a substantial amount of effort to develop to a point where its mostly foolproof. There's a huge amount of work to be done on Sigil and since I can devote much less time to it than I'd like, I'd rather spend it on something more useful.

etienne66 · 11-27-2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Valloric

...I'd rather spend it on something more useful.

Here, here.

I just wish I could donate some money to your efforts. Keep up the good work.

Etienne66

DaleDe · 11-27-2009, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

Many programs recognize file type based on content. Most file formats have fixed headers, easy to recognize. There could even be a GPL library for that lying around.

Unix units have a file command that makes the work. It has a magic database to supplement the built in header data and can be extended by the user. Most Unix programs use the file utility to perform this function. On other platforms this functionality may or may not exist.

Dale

zelda_pinwheel · 11-27-2009, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

Unix units have a file command that makes the work. It has a magic database to supplement the built in header data and can be extended by the user. Most Unix programs use the file utility to perform this function. On other platforms this functionality may or may not exist.

Dale

unix has a magic database ??????

i must switch immediately !! does it come with a pony, too ????

11-26-2009, 06:37 AM	#20
Diana495 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 8320 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Ipod Touch	I'm having a slight problem with the Search function. When I do a search and click the Find Next button, the word gets found and highlighted, but it doesn't jump to it, and I have to scroll down to find the highlighted word. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8. And thank you so much for Sigil! It makes ebook reading so much easier. ETA: Nevermind! I figured it out. I had Sigil at 130% zoom. I changed it back to 100%, and now when I click Find Next, it jumps to the next word. Just ignore me. Last edited by Diana495; 11-26-2009 at 06:43 AM.

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EowynCarter Wizard Posts: 4,337 Karma: 4000000 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Paris Device: Cybooks; Sony PRS-T1	Ah, sigil won't open .epub if they have been renamed .zip. Keep on the good job valoric, and tanks for this wonderfull tool

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