Table of Content click-bug inside Sigil

[steven522]

I first noticed this happening after I updated to the latest version (0.8.2 at this point) for Windows 64 bit.

I load in a single html file with each chapter set with an H1/H2/etc. code.
I generate the table of contents in Sigil to get the listing in the contents panel.
I then click the first chapter link in the contents panel to move to that chapter header.
I use the key combo command Ctrl-Enter to break the html into a new file at that new chapter header leaving the previous segments isolated and making the Chapter header the start of the large html file.
I click on the next chapter, Ctrl-Enter, etc., etc. until all chapters have been broken down to their own individual html section inside Sigil.

Now I have to be careful when going through this because a click on the next Chapter, say click on 12 from within the larger section that now starts with 11 and it will bounce me back to the previous clipped down chapter 10. I will have to make a second click on the chapter 12 link to move back into the larger html section and down to the actual chapter 12 header.

Many times I have realized that I have created extra blank html sections because I broke out a new html section from a prior section where the header was the first line of that section.

[Toxaris]

Perhaps a strange question, but why don't you insert a splitmarker by searching for h1/h2 and put a splitmarker in front. Then you can easily with one command split the HTML into separate files at the markers. Saves a lot of work... Two actions, one S&R and one split action.

Also, if you changes your files like you do, it would be better to recreate the toc first after each split.

[exaltedwombat]

Yes, why are you messing around with a TOC when you have a perfectly good marker for the beginning of each chapter already? You're not trying to do all this in Book View, are you? :-)

[Notjohn]

Originally Posted by steven522

I load in a single html file with each chapter set with an H1/H2/etc. code.
I generate the table of contents in Sigil to get the listing in the contents panel.

Well, I have always split my book into sections/chapters first. Pace to the gurus among us, I find this easiest to do in Book View. I left-click my cursor just past the last character in the section (typically a full stop). Then I click on the icon in the second menu line that shows one page, a blue arrow, then two pages. I keep doing that until I'm done.

Then I go to Tools > Table of Contents > Edit Table of Contents (rarely, Generate Table of Contents). Nine times out of ten, the entire TOC is there and I don't have to do anything more to it.

Incidentally, I have been doing more work in Book View lately, just because I'm lazy. If I want to substitute one word for another, I just highlight the doomed word and type the new one on top of it. In earlier iterations of Sigil, this was a recipe for disaster -- it kept inserting non-breaking spaces and other bad stuff. But 0.8.1 doesn't seem to do that, and I keep getting away with this risky behavior.

[theducks]

@s.522
some folk work on pre(chapter)split books

some folk would rather work on a huge, long file

I prefer the first. Less damage when things go waaaay off in left field

It does not matter WHEN you create the TOC if using H#s as TOCgenerator markers, as long as they are all present Splitting will adjust references.

I use the Clip Editor to create common tags (some in wrap mode) and strings used in code view. The frequent used ones are on the Clip bar One is the Sigil Split Marker (ctrl-enter) (see circled items in image) and use Split at Markers (F6) when ready

Clips can be placed into a Search or replace box as well as the body text. Sometimes I build a replace compounded from clips

Image shown is a non-traditional toolbars layout (My goal: minimal mouse travel to common used icons)

[steven522]

Thanks, everyone, but I'm not looking for alternate ways of doing things... just reporting a bug.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by steven522

Thanks, everyone, but I'm not looking for alternate ways of doing things... just reporting a bug.

Alrighty--but what Toxaris said on the 11th, would do what you are doing in about 5 seconds. FWIW.

Hitch