10-03-2016, 07:54 AM | #1 |
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The pros and cons of Sigil
Features that I particularly like in Sigil - in no particular order:
1. Clip Editor 2 Mend and Prettify 3. TOC creation and generation tool(It's good but Calibre's TOC editor is better) 4. Special Characters(Good for resolving mixed encoding problems causing gibberish text) 5. W3C stylesheet Check 6. Vast array of useful Sigil Plugins 7. Index editor 8. Text/HTML view 9. Simple file split/merge capability. 10. Inserting files and images. 11. Very good search and replace. Things I don't like about Sigil: 1. Poor Sigil Help Guide Support. The last time the help guide was updated in the Git repository was 2 yrs ago. The online Sigil Guide has also gone walkabout. 2. Poor Metadata editor. It's clunky and easy to make a mistake using this editor. I now use a free and fast epub metadata editor called Epub Metadata Editor -- with a very plain dialog that has every possible meta entry you could wish for. 3. Only inserts a book cover images as SVG. It would be nice to have a tick box option to insert the cover image as a plain old HTML <img>. Older Kindle mobi7s cannot display SVG images. Last edited by slowsmile; 10-04-2016 at 08:39 AM. |
10-03-2016, 07:59 AM | #2 |
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If you're having trouble editing a post (or creating a new thread), please ask for help. I'm going to delete two of your triplicate posts and move the other to its own thread since it's not really relevant to the thread it was posted in.
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10-03-2016, 08:25 AM | #3 |
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Sorry about that.
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10-03-2016, 12:00 PM | #4 |
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You can still use the Insert Image tool to build a COVER file
then use the Semantics tool to flag the HTML file and the cover image files as COVER (both need to be done) |
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The user interface for epub2 metadata followed that design so that users do not have to learn two different interfaces. As always github pull requests that do not limit epub3 metadata that still work for epub2's much more limited metadata welcomed. KevinH |
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10-04-2016, 12:09 AM | #7 |
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I can't really think of anything major that has changed besides Plugins + very basic EPUB3 support + a handful of different Preferences (Tidy/Mend). Although I must admit, I haven't looked at the Guide in a very long time. Quote:
The Sigil 0.9.6 Add Semantics is missing any sort of indication from what I could tell: Last edited by Tex2002ans; 10-04-2016 at 02:23 AM. |
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10-04-2016, 03:01 AM | #9 |
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Assigned Semantics attributes are being displayed when you move the mouse pointer over a file in the Book Browser.
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10-04-2016, 03:56 AM | #10 |
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10-05-2016, 11:45 AM | #11 |
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10-06-2016, 12:58 PM | #12 |
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10-06-2016, 02:00 PM | #13 |
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Honestly, why? In order to set a semantic, you have to mouse over it in the Bookbrowser which will show you what it is set to. You would only invoke the set semantics to actually change it and that makes the last set value rather meaningless, doesn't it.
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Side Note #2: I have now also learned from BetterRed that you can also see all of the Semantics as a column in Tools -> Reports -> All Files. While ok for someone technical like me, this isn't a very quick/user friendly position at all. Quote:
That little checkmark was also really helpful when you were working on a book from an outside source (I could quickly just right click and visually see the Cover/others were assigned properly). Sigil 0.8.6:
At a quick glance, you can see which semantics are already assigned to the file (if any): Sigil 0.9.6:
Relying on the Hover Method only is also very confusing, ESPECIALLY when dealing with the very common filenames that Sigil creates: "cover.xhtml" + "TOC.xhtml": "cover.xhtml (Cover)" + "TOC.xhtml (Table of Contents)" ... You are telling me THAT is better than the easy-to-understand ol' checkmark image above? And with a very long filename: the semantics just get lost. If I didn't know what to look for thanks to Doitsu, I would have NO CLUE that "(Table of Contents)" was the semantic for that file. Side Note: And who would recognize those more obscure semantics if they were in parentheses (Colophon, Epigraph, [...]). I sure wouldn't. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 10-06-2016 at 03:29 PM. |
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10-06-2016, 03:17 PM | #15 |
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You can see the entire set in the content.opf in epub 2, in the nav in epub3, in the report for both epub2 and epub3 and by simply mousing over the list of files in the BookBrowser.
BTW: The mousing over approach has always worked that way. And the toggle on toggle off has always has worked that way as well. Invoking set semantic just to check what is set in simply not the correct approach. It is just the one you are used too. Semantics under epub3 are a much longer list that can not be set or displayed with a simple menu as the older limited epub2 semantics used. Sorry, I am simply do not think that change is useful or worthwhile. KevinH |
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