Introduction Since taking over as the maintainer of Sigil I have spent some time reaching out to specific people in the ebook community to ask them about Sigil. Specifically if they use Sigil? Why or why not? What do they see as Sigil's shortcomings? How do they use Sigil in their work flow? Why doesn't … Continue reading Sigil User Study
Month: August 2011
Formatting Tips: Markdown, Textile and calibre
About Formatting Tips. Up to this point Formatting Tips have been focused on the EPUB format and working directly with the underlying XHTML and CSS. Not everyone wants or needs this level of control over the layout of their book. Often times a book only needs basic formatting such as headings, bold, and italic. There … Continue reading Formatting Tips: Markdown, Textile and calibre
Sigil 0.4.1 Released
Sigil 0.4.1 is complete and available. This is mainly a maintenance release and fixes a number of bugs. There are a few new features mostly around the code view. As always see the changelog for a complete list of changes.
Formatting Tips: Calibre as a First Step
About Formatting Tips. Calibre's robust conversion engine can be leveraged to help with formatting tasks. Converting with calibre helps when you are dealing with a format you cannot easily edit, or a format you aren't very familiar. It's also helpful in situations where the insides of the file is such as mess it's hard to … Continue reading Formatting Tips: Calibre as a First Step
Nook Covers Not Showing Up
The Barnes and Noble (B&N) Nook has issues reading covers for EPUB files. Not all Nooks have this issue it's only the Color and Touch because the original Nook supported reading the cover from an external image file. The Color and Touch will only read covers from the EPUB files themselves (no cover thumbnails unfortunately). … Continue reading Nook Covers Not Showing Up
Sigil SCM Move to Git Completed Sucessfully
Last night I moved Sigil's SCM from Mercurial (hg) to Git (git). The change was completed successfully and without any issues. 0.4.0 had locations for things like the user manual pointing to the git locations. These are now live and working again. These links are now broken in any release before 0.4.0. This is unfortunate … Continue reading Sigil SCM Move to Git Completed Sucessfully
Calibre and HamsterSoft Conclusion
Previously I posted about an instance of copyright infringement. It was found that a company called HamsterSoft was using portions of calibre in their proprietary and closed source ebook conversion program. The good news is the situation has been resolved. On August 15th I was contacted by Pavel, one of the founders of HamsterSoft. He … Continue reading Calibre and HamsterSoft Conclusion
