Set 2/3 when New epub is Created

[BetterRed]

Would it be possible to provide a means to specify the epub version (2.0, 3.0) when a new book is created from the File menu, rather than have to change Preferences and try again.

File->New->EPUB 2.0
           EPUB 3.0

Preference setting would remain, and be used when Sigil is started from scratch.

BR

[KevinH]

The preference setting controls this as designed. This is because most people work with either epub2 mainly or epub3 mainly and do not go back and forth when creating new books from scratch.

When opening an existing epub, the epub's version is used to determine if epub2 or epub3.

So setting the preferences makes it perfectly clear what type of epub version you mainly work with when building one from scratch.

KevinH

[BetterRed]

Thanks

FYI - there are three people here creating new epubs, one is ~75/25% 2.0/3.0, another is ~25/75% 2.0/3.0, and the other is about ~60/40% 2.0/3.0. These are short works created from imported material - about 20 a day between us.

BR

[Doitsu]

@BR: It'd take only a few lines of code to create dummy epub2/epub3 import plugins that'll import customizable blank epub2/epub3 epubs from the plugin directory. I.e., you could select Plugins > Input > epub2/epub3 to create a new blank epub2 or epub3 book regardless of the current epub version preference setting.

If you think that such dummy epub2/epub3 import plugins would be helpful, I could quickly slap the two plugins together and attach them as unsupported unofficial plugins to this thread.

[KevinH]

Or save one template epub2 and one template epub3 - where the template is basically an almost empty epub but with your base stylesheets, images, your logo, publisher page, and whatever else you use in your production setting.

Then any time you want to start a new epub just load that template file and do a file save as for the first save to whatever new name you want.

KevinH

[BetterRed]

Added - x-posted with ↑

Originally Posted by Doitsu

@BR: It'd take only a few lines of code to create dummy epub2/epub3 import plugins that'll import customizable blank epub2/epub3 epubs from the plugin directory. I.e., you could select Plugins > Input > epub2/epub3 to create a new blank epub2 or epub3 book regardless of the current epub version preference setting.

If you think that such dummy epub2/epub3 import plugins would be helpful, I could quickly slap the two plugins together and attach them as unsupported unofficial plugins to this thread.

Much appreciated mate, but I'll forgo the offer.

I'm not keen on extraneous add-ons - more things to worry about. My colleagues are non-technical PPE interns, and my 'here' is virtual, one is currently located O/S (the swamp) the other one is in Canberra (the mire). Getting them to install plugins is probably beyond their skill-set - and I'm not inclined to do for them over the wire.

I avoid the issue by starting with a copy of a saved 2.0 or 3.0 pro-forma; predictably, the interns are from the 'click it' generation Ψ²

BR