This is primarily a maintenance release with a large number of fixes. Find and replace (F&R), GUI tweaks and spell check were the major focus. Highlights include: F&R now supports wrapping and the ability to search within selected files. The GUI now (hopefully) remembers cursor position when switching views. en_GB dictionary was added, all dictionaries were updated and hyphenation dictionaries are now included by default. For a full list of all changes for this release please see the Changelog....

There have been some confusion about how find works in, the now released, 0.5.0. The confusion stems from the the 0.4.90x betas. One method was used in the early betas and it was changed later on. This all stems from the regular expression engine being changed from QRegExp to PCRE. The issue at hand is how and when the cursor is taken info account when running a find. In this regard 0....

For some time now Sigil has had two different help forums. One at MobileRead and the other as a Google Group. This has caused quite a bit of confusion because people don’t know the best place to go for help. I’ve decided to close (it’s already done so don’t ask me to reconsider) the Google Group. This was an easy decision because 1) MobileRead’s sub forum gets more traffic, 2) I use MobileRead and I don’t use the Google Group, 3) Most posts on the Google Group were unanswered making it a poor place to go for help....

I’m happy to announce the release of Sigil version 0.5.0. 0.5.0 comes with a number of bug fixes and some major new features: Inline spell check in code view Support for PCRE in search and replace Translations into 15 languages Please see the changelog for a full list of changes in this release. One smaller change is I’ve decided to drop OpenCandy. Surprisingly I’ve only encountered one complaint about OpenCandy and it was directed at bundling offers for other software inside of an installer not at OpenCandy in particular....

Introduction A question I often get asked is what kind of workflow is best for creating ebooks. The short answer is there is no best, perfect, or standard way to create ebooks. There are as many workflows as there are people. I have regular contact with a commercial company (Booknook.biz) that provides digital file to ebook creation servies (I am not affiliated with or work for this company). The company is broken down into teams and each team has a very different work flow, uses very different tools and they all produce the same quality (high) ebooks....

The first beta for 0.5 (0.4.902) is now available. There are a few new features I’m most interested in getting feedback on. Inline spell check, translations, and the new PCRE engine. Of course crashes and major issues will be looked into and hopefully fixed before the final release.

The majority of the data loss issues have been mitigated at this point. With a work flow of open, save as after major changes and saving after minor ones, catastrophic data loss can be worked around to the point that Sigil can and is being used on a day to day basis. That said, there are issues with data loss in Sigil and they are a priority. I’m currently finishing up the 0....

I have been working on adding inline spell check to Sigil recently and ran into a quirk on Qt that isn’t immediately obvious. I ended up having to look though the Qt source code to understand exactly what was happening. When dealing with a QPlainTextEdit you can get the QTextCursor and use the charFormat() function to retrieve the QTextCharFormat for the character before the cursor. This does not work when the formatting is set by a QSyntaxHighlighter!...

One of the the new features that has been implemented for 0.5 (release date yet to be determined) is support for Translations. For Sigil’s first supported language Grzegorz Wolszczak has provided a Polish translation. Currently translations are loaded based upon the current system locale. There no support for choosing the language via preferences. This may come at a later time but for now I believe that using the system locale will handle the majority of user needs....

Thanks to Grzegorz Wolszczak Sigil now (will be part of the 0.5 release) allows users to change keyboard shortcuts for many actions. Grzegorz has been helping out a lot and helped to introduce a preferences dialog and provided user configurable keyboard shortcuts.