Sigil 2.4.0

Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format (both ePub 2 and ePub 3). It also provides features for advanced users, like direct XHTML, CSS and XPGT editing. You can use it to add any of the metadata entries supported by the EPUB specification and create a hierarchical Table of Contents.

Sigil key features:

• Free and open source software under GPLv3
• Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux (note Linux only receives limited support)
• Full UTF-16 support
• EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support
• Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
• WYSIWYG editing in Book View
• Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
• Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
• Metadata editor
• User interface translated into many languages
• Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
• Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
• Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
• Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated
• All imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
• Plugins!

Sigil 2.4.0 changelog:

Sigil version 2.4.0 represents a mix of bug fixes and new features. Also note that the Microsoft VC++ runtime redistributable is no longer being bundled in the Sigil Windows installer starting with version 2.3.1. This should already be installed on any Windows PC that Sigil is supported on.

Changes in this Release

New Features

• added a GetInfo dialog and right click menu option for XHTML files that provides a collection of information specific to that file without having to run Reports (including a word count)
• added support for multiple semantics per xhtml file, while uncommon is technically allowed by the spec
• made debugging with VS IDE easier
• streamlined Sigil logos and installer for Windows
• improve Sigil Well-Formed (sanity check) to better identify errors with missing attribute quotes
• update to Qt 6.7.3 and its PySide6 version for MacOS and Windows release builds
• updates to building on linux documentation
• add support for building with and using virtual python environments on Windows and Linux
• change Replacement Chooser to use Checkboxes to determine if replacements should be made, no deletes
• allow Windows Sigil installer to run on Windows arm64

Bug Fixes

• readability improvments for Load Warnings (thank you BeckyEbook)
• remove xhtml meta charset information after converting to utf-8 on initial load to prevent encoding errors
• forced the Preferences KeyboardShortcuts assign and remove buttons into the tab focus chain
• PR #778 building Sigil with recent Qt versions that no longer accept the QT_IMPLICIT_QCHAR_CONSTRUCTION macro
• fixes for using QTimeZone to prevent build warnings where possible (modified version of PR #779)
• fixes for better whitespace handling in TagLister codebase

Download: Sigil 2.4.0 | 127.0 MB (Open Source)
Links: Sigil Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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