09-30-2012, 07:29 PM | #1 |
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0.6 Beta take 3 (0.5.906)
A new beta is up. It address all of the issues noted in the previous thread.
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09-30-2012, 07:31 PM | #2 |
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I forgot to mention, this beta fixes the OS X packaging issue. However, I don't know if it is 10.8 only or if it will work properly on previous OS X versions.
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Favourite features and fixes...
Now that the betas are out, we can finally talk about some of the sexy new stuff in more detail. With an added/changed/fixed list 150+ long (which is not even close to definitive with over 1000 commits to the source code since 0.5.3!) it is far from easy to get a quick view of what is new/improved. I know poor meme is having to play catchup with the User Guide with all our changes and he also intends to post about some of the new stuff soon too...
Here are my top 5 "you might not know this" new features that rock my world for productivity...
That is without even mentioning dozens of other new features, many of which are now established in my regular workflow:
And here are my favourite top 5 bug fixes from the countless dozens of nasty things we fixed...
The thousands of hours of effort gone from the guys into the 0.6 release over the last six months is truly epic, it has been a lot of fun to work on this. There are still a few things up our sleeves we would like to add/change/rewrite in the future, but with this release Sigil is faster, more stable, more featured and more polished than ever before. So folks, please let us know your thoughts... |
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0.5.906 crashing / OSX
fwiw, I just trying opening the new beta version in OSX 10.7.5 and it crashes instantly - same as 5.905 was doing. Here's my crash log:
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09-30-2012, 08:15 PM | #5 |
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@erickerl - Thanks for letting us know, I'll let John comment on that one, the OS X stuff is his baby. Frustrating for those of you affected I'm sure.
I will add that the other packaging issue of 32-bit Sigil and launching from the Open With plugin in calibre still exists with this release as well. So I have just pushed a new version of the Open With plugin to workaround the problem. Please do install that and you won't see the error dialog appearing before Sigil starts any more that was reported on the last thread. |
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09-30-2012, 08:36 PM | #6 |
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It's OS X 10.8 only then. I figured it would but but I couldn't test to be sure.
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10-01-2012, 03:40 AM | #7 |
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What could I possibly add to everything kiwidude listed
Despite all the features and polishing done for this release, its the stability that is really impressive (well, ok, for OS's that it starts on ). A lot of effort has gone into restructuring the code and tracking every known crash and and every known bug and fixing them (every reported bug in the issue log has been addressed). Find & Replace is rock solid now. And loading or opening invalid files is not only more robust (e.g., working around missing container.xml files) but able to avoid just exiting. So if you have any issues with this release please post the details! For polishing, I don't think I can remember all the little tweaks done so you can find functions where you expect them and to just do what you expect them to do. And all the comments from the first beta were taken into account for this one. But of course, its the features that are the fun part. I'll be exhaustively documenting them in the user guide, and you'll find all the main ones in the menus, but here are a few you might have missed:
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Split on file marker
I loaded the Win 64 bit version.
F6 -Split at file marker- does not work. Woe ... Woe ... Woe. I can't go further without it. |
10-01-2012, 05:09 AM | #9 |
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How did you insert the split marker?
If manually, what are you typing? If you are using Insert Split Marker - what text is shown for it in Code View? The name used for the split marker has changed - but it should still pick up older split marker names. EDIT: The old name sigilChapterBreak doesn't work in this release. We'll make sure it does in the final. For now just use the new marker class sigil_split_marker instead and it should work fine. Last edited by meme; 10-01-2012 at 05:16 AM. |
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New win 64bit beta does not insert the full path in either toc or loi.
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body> <h2 id="Ch_LI">LIST <span class="italic">of</span> ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> <blockquote> <div class="justify"> <a href="#FRONT">FRONTPIECE</a> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div class="justify"> <a href="#image01">ON LA PELERINE</a> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div class="justify"> <a href="#image02">ON THE ROAD TO MAYENNE</a> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div class="justify"> <a href="#image03">FOR THE BALL AT SALNT-JAMES</a> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div class="justify"> <a href="#image04">MONTAURAX TO HIS BROTHER</a> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html> |
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@crutledge - not sure what you mean? An LOI isn't a Sigil feature, so what you posted wasn't created by Sigil. Creating an inline TOC is certainly, but when I create one it most definitely has the paths to the files, and when I close and reopen the book they are still there. Inserting Links - has full file paths. Generate TOC for NCX - has full file paths.
Are you sure your book actually had full paths in the first place for that page? Attach an example with some repro steps if you think a problem exists. |
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10-01-2012, 06:56 AM | #14 |
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@crutledge - all that shows is that you have some html pages that don't have file paths in their hrefs. There is no indication of what led to this or whether they ever had file paths in the first place? As I said above we need a repro case if you think Sigil is the cause - the document you actually started with which had paths, and what steps you followed which led them to be dropped.
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The spellcheck now flags anything with a leading or following single parenthesis as misspelled. Is this something that is curable on your end?
We are definitely getting down to the nit picky...thanks again! |
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