What is the (basic) difference between 0.7.2 and 0.7.4?

[Gregg Bell]

I do an ebook twice a year with Sigil. I've been using 0.7.2, but in the last Linux (Xubuntu 13.10) software update they snuck in a update for Sigil to 0.7.4. So I can uninstall that and get 0.7.2 again or I can stay with 0.7.4. I opened 0.7.4 and saw the numeric entity for the non-breaking space. I remembered there was a thread on that, read it, and that thread reassured me that my 0.7.2 was good for me and what I was using Sigil for and that the non-breaking spaces were working like they always did. I also read a thread where a guy was using 0.7.4 and he said he was losing line spaces between paragraphs, or maybe the line spaces between paragraphs were inconsistent.

Bottom line. I take an html into Sigil and make an ebook of it. That's it. Nothing fancy. Just text, chapters, toc, the basics. Doing that, do I need to be aware of 0.7.4 being substantively different than 0.7.2? Or would I be better off going back to 0.7.2?

And I noticed when I add the old nonbreaking space (   ) in 0.7.4 it seems to have no problem with that and treats it like it did in 0.7.2 (but that is just from a brief very incomplete testing).

[Doitsu]

AFAIK, the only significant change is the handling of non-breaking spaces, which'll be replaced with regular spaces, if the Clean Source Open option is disabled. If you use empty paragraphs with non-breaking spaces in them, they'll be deleted, too.
For more information see this post.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

AFAIK, the only significant change is the handling of non-breaking spaces, which'll be replaced with regular spaces, if the Clean Source Open option is disabled. If you use empty paragraphs with non-breaking spaces in them, they'll be deleted, too.
For more information see this post.

Thanks a lot, Doitsu. I almost always have the Clean Source Open enabled and always use Pretty Print (and never Tidy Print), so then in 0.7.4 if I maintain those conditions, the nbsp will be treated just like it was in 0.7.2., right?

I usually like to go with the latest versions of programs, but it won't be hard to get 0.7.2 back, so do you see any real advantage to using 0.7.4?

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

I usually like to go with the latest versions of programs, but it won't be hard to get 0.7.2 back, so do you see any real advantage to using 0.7.4?

Since 0.7.4 has introduced a new   bug and doesn't offer any new features, you may want to stick with 0.7.2.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Since 0.7.4 has introduced a new   bug and doesn't offer any new features, you may want to stick with 0.7.2.

Thanks very much. Will do.