Long-time Sigil user and familiar with its idiosyncrasies, shortcuts, and expected results. Am now trying to move to the calibre Book Editor for all my eBook editing. It is already an outstanding piece of work implementing many of the Sigil functions but in an enhanced, wholly different approach. Can't hardly wait to see what it will mature into.
Have learned and become familiar with and use often many of its more esoteric functions -- like merging, splitting, creating blank files, importing/modifying images, modifying the CSS, applying headings, creating TOCs, find and replace, troubleshooting and fixing HTML errors, etc.
But I need help with some of the very basic elements of the editing process.
Although I've learned how to create new text files and edit existing files (including applying headings, bold, italics, etc.) by operating in the code panel using shortcut keys and letting calibre generate the appropriate code, I can't figure out how to put any text or image or even a blank line in the body without manually generating the appropriate codes.
Are there ways to create new text, insert images, change alignment by menu selection or keyboard shortcut -- or do I have to get much more familiar with html coding and do it manually?
BTW --anybody know if I can create a keyboard shortcut in calibre that will take me directly to the Editor?
Have learned and become familiar with and use often many of its more esoteric functions -- like merging, splitting, creating blank files, importing/modifying images, modifying the CSS, applying headings, creating TOCs, find and replace, troubleshooting and fixing HTML errors, etc.
But I need help with some of the very basic elements of the editing process.
Although I've learned how to create new text files and edit existing files (including applying headings, bold, italics, etc.) by operating in the code panel using shortcut keys and letting calibre generate the appropriate code, I can't figure out how to put any text or image or even a blank line in the body without manually generating the appropriate codes.
Are there ways to create new text, insert images, change alignment by menu selection or keyboard shortcut -- or do I have to get much more familiar with html coding and do it manually?
BTW --anybody know if I can create a keyboard shortcut in calibre that will take me directly to the Editor?