05-12-2022, 09:11 AM | #16 |
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Jutoh is an editor that gets a lot of recommendations for those looking for more of an authorial tool. I've never used it (it's not free), so I can't vouch for its spec-compliance (or compatibility with a lot of epub rendering engines), but there's a free trial.
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I don’t think there can be a good WYSIWYG editor for anything that relies on document semantics. Because folks drawn to an editor like that are generally not into semantics (as in, a software choice like that is meant to avoid working with it), and will tend to do arbitrary things like “make this bigger” or “move this over” with no discernible logic to it. You already see it anytime you check out someone else’s InDesign/Word file or something, and it’s littered with little inconsistencies and exceptions.
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Another reason good WYSIWYG editors are hard to find, is that many people are not satisfied with the code being written for them "behind the scenes". They not only want it done for them, they want the coding to be done to suit their particular--and usually exacting--standards. You can't have both. You'd need to train an AI for a long time to get code written for you from a WYSIWYG editor that would meet EPUB's standards, semantic structure, accessibility needs, AND your own particular coding habits.
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For those running on a Mac platform, this is also Vellum which many authors I've spoken with seem to love. Part of that love seems to be that it include a mass of media queries to allow epub, KF8 and mobi ebooks to be readable without needing special handling.
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You want to comment on the "awful" code you think it produces? Fine. But don't tell people not to ever use it. Not here, anyway. |
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But even if It Works, it doesn't really if the formatting is poor.
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