Clips in Book View mode

[brolny]

“Clips” are very useful feature of the Sigil, but...

- When I press button "A" (Make the selected text bold) – I immediately see (in the “Book View” mode) that my text becomes bold.

- So, I expected the same immediate effect when I select text and then one “Clip” from “Clips”. But to see the changes I have to switch to “Code View” mode and then back (or re-open file) – in order to update the appearance of the file in “Book View”.

Why there is such difference – both times I just insert some HTML tags in the file...
No more...
Can you, please, update the “Book View” after inserting a “Clip”.

Thanks!

Spoiler:

clip:
<span xml:lang="hy">\1</span>

css:
:lang(hy) {
color: red;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 1.2em;
}

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by brolny

- So, I expected the same immediate effect when I select text and then one “Clip” from “Clips”. But to see the changes I have to switch to “Code View” mode and then back (or re-open file) – in order to update the appearance of the file in “Book View”.

Clips were honestly never intended to be run from within Book View.

Originally Posted by brolny

-Why there is such difference – both times I just insert some HTML tags in the file...

The "why" is because clips are not the same as the gui formatting buttons (and because as I mentioned above, clips--especially html-tag-inserting clips--were never intended to be used in Book View). Do you not see the irony (or the potential danger) of using Book View to "just insert some HTML tags in the file"? What you're trying to do practically screams "please do me in Code View!"

Originally Posted by brolny

Can you, please, update the “Book View” after inserting a “Clip”.

We'll look into the possibilty, but we may also look into disabling all Clip functionality in Book View, too. Book View is for text; Code View is for tags.

[Doitsu]

@brolny: I also strongly suggest that you follow DiapDealer's advice and don't apply clips in Book View mode.

If you need instant feedback, you can press F10 to display the Preview window, which will reflect layout changes caused by clips inserted in Code View and Book View.

If you use clips a lot, you also might want to permanently display the Clip Bar. (Right-click an empty area in the main tool bar and select Clip Bar.)