WordPress Gutenberg Editor is Garbage if You Need to Post Code

Introduction Recently WordPress.com (and WordPress in general) has started pushing the new Gutenberg editor. It uses a block based model instead of a traditional document centric one. This I don’t like but I also don’t mind. It’s a different way of composing and I can see the benefit. However, Gutenberg is not ready if you post source code and I do this a lot. Posting source code used to be done using the [code] shortcode....

January 1, 2019 · John

Calibre Quick Start Guide Fourth Edition

The quick start guide is something I’ve been neglecting for quite some time. When calibre 1.0 was released I really should have updated the guide at that time but I didn’t. This past week I decided that it had been long enough and the guide had to be updated. I’m happy to say that before I updated it, the majority of the information in the guide still applied. This is a testament to the stability of calibre....

February 22, 2014 · John

Sigil BookView Changes Preview

The next release of Sigil is shaping up nicely. There is so much going into it that the next release will be 0.6.0. Unfortunately, EPUB 3 will not be one of the features making it into 0.6.0. One major change coming will be a new BookView (BV) editor. Here is an unfinished preview of what it might look like. This is only a concept preview of the new editor. One issue that needs to be resolved is the double tool bar....

March 10, 2012 · John