0.5.0 Released

[theducks]

Originally Posted by weedfreak

wtf is nas-libs I have tried installing libsdl1.2debian-nas and get the same error message, libsdl1.2debian-all is even worse as it does not even give an error message. Why Sigil should need any audio library beats me.

Internet search shows no such deb package as nas-libs. Only links to download other unwanted crap.

Why can Sigil not produce a proper installer (deb and rpm) that resolves dependencies?

nas-libs is listed in Synaptic for Ubuntu Natty.

Did you use the 64 bit installer (me only have 32 bit HW )

[Ahmad Samir]

Originally Posted by weedfreak

wtf is nas-libs I have tried installing libsdl1.2debian-nas and get the same error message, libsdl1.2debian-all is even worse as it does not even give an error message. Why Sigil should need any audio library beats me.

Try libaudio2 or nas : http://packages.debian.org/sid/libaudio2

It's not Sigil, it's libQtGui that's linked against libaudio.so.2; could be that user_none grabs the libs from whatever Linux distro he runs, and that distro links against libaudio.so.2.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by ghostyjack

Finally figured out this issue.

The dictionary I was using is unicode compatible, but to make the spellchecker recognise the curly quotes, em-dashes, etc, you also need the GB English hyphen .dic file. For some reason it wasn't in the file I downloaded so I went to the LibreOffice site and downloaded their latest English language .oxt file and extracted the following files: en_GB.aff, en_GB.dic and hyph_en_GB.dic.

After installing all three of them into Sigil's dictionary folder, they now seem to be working correctly.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Seriously, I could keep going forever. I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am. This thing was driving me completely insane. You are a Big Chief Lion Killer.

(and thanks also to meme for the FAQ update)

[ElMiko]

Well, the good news is that ghostyjack's solution fixed the problem of recognizing apostrophes. The bad news is, it still doesn't like hyphens or dashes. I've tried with both the LibreOffice US dictionary & the LibreOffice GB dictionary. Any ideas?

[meme]

Try the OpenOffice ones, linked from the FAQ to see if they're any different.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by weedfreak

Why Sigil should need any audio library beats me.

I don't know... to play audio files that people keep embedding in EPUB files...

Originally Posted by weedfreak

Why can Sigil not produce a proper installer (deb and rpm) that resolves dependencies?

Distro specific packing is up to your distro. Complain to them if you don't want to provide a Sigil package. The Linux installer is just a connivence. Really since you're on Linux you should be building it yourself. build-essential, libqt4-dev, and cmake are the only packages necessary to build it on Ubuntu.

Originally Posted by Ahmad Samir

It's not Sigil, it's libQtGui that's linked against libaudio.so.2; could be that user_none grabs the libs from whatever Linux distro he runs, and that distro links against libaudio.so.2.

Ubuntu 11.04. I'm not building Qt myself but as Ahmad Samir said using the distro provided Qt. I guess I'll have to start building my own version to ensure there are no extra deps that sneak in...

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by meme

Try the OpenOffice ones, linked from the FAQ to see if they're any different.

None of these links work
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/...Z.2CUS.2CZA.29

and the US dictionary doesn't have a hyphen file

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by ElMiko

and the US dictionary doesn't have a hyphen file

This one does. It has the hyphen-file for the US and GB dictionaries. I just downloaded it and used it.

[ElMiko]

Thank you, DD. This one also appears not to handle em/en dashes, so it looks like that's just something I'm going to have to live with. It's still a damn sight better than what it used to be!

Again, thanks for looking for something.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by ElMiko

Thank you, DD. This one also appears not to handle em/en dashes, so it looks like that's just something I'm going to have to live with. It's still a damn sight better than what it used to be!

Again, thanks for looking for something.

That dictionary recognizes em/en dashes just fine for me.
(assuming, of course, that the word before and/or after the dash are valid dictionary words.)

[weedfreak]

Originally Posted by Ahmad Samir

Try libaudio2 or nas : http://packages.debian.org/sid/libaudio2

It's not Sigil, it's libQtGui that's linked against libaudio.so.2; could be that user_none grabs the libs from whatever Linux distro he runs, and that distro links against libaudio.so.2.

Ok libaudio2 did it thank you. Now I just need to sort out the dictionary , ideally I would like to turn it off, or failing that get it to use the three common languages I already have set up in Libreoffice. Why I should have to copy already installed dictionary files into Sigil config beats me, every other app that needs dictionaries is quite happy to use the globally installed ones.

[mrmikel]

Under Vista:

I successfully inserted 5 new files into a blank document. When I try to insert the sixth hmtl file sigil stops working.

Attached are files involved. The chapter 6 html file is zipped so it can be uploaded.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

That dictionary recognizes em/en dashes just fine for me.
(assuming, of course, that the word before and/or after the dash are valid dictionary words.)

It's an international conspiracy...

[Serpentine]

Originally Posted by ElMiko

It's an international conspiracy...

You might be using the incorrect version of the dictionary files - The ones from OOo that I suggested user_none use, do support en/em dashes and fancy apostrophes for US English.

[theducks]

Looks like mdash has a problem.