Sigil 0.1.5

Sigil description

A WYSIWYG ebook editor

Sigil is a handy utility that was designed in order to help you easily create and edit your own personalized e-books in no time. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Here are some key features of "Sigil":

· Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
· Full EPUB spec support
· WYSIWYG editing
· Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
· Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
· Table Of Contents editor
· Multi-level TOC support
· Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
· SVG support
· Basic XPGT support
· Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode
· Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time
· Currently exports EPUB and SGF (Sigil native format); more will be added with time
· Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually )
· An actually usable user interface
· Native C++ application

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· fixed a race condition with view syncing in Book View
· fixed an issue with loading text files that don't end with a newline (some text would end up missing)
· A NEW FIND & REPLACE DIALOG (issue #13)
· no more hard line breaks in Code View (courtesy of recent performance optimisations) (issue #61)
· TOC Editor now remembers its size across invocations and program launches
· the uninstaller now removes Sigil's temporary working directories
· removed the "Start Sigil" checkbox in the last page of the installer; starting Sigil like this
· was causing problems because Sigil had admin privileges (issue #163)
· fixed an issue with chapter breaks not working after they are Left/Center/Right Aligned (issue #158)
· multiple images can now be inserted with the "Insert Image" dialog by selecting multiple images
· fixed an issue with loading images from documents with uppercase tags and attributes (issue #156)
· tentatively fixed an issue with Sigil crashing on overwriting existing epubs (issue #146)