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Small maintenance release.

Introduction Not very long ago my boss walked up to my desk, put a pile of books down beside me and said “Not it”.

The next release of Sigil is shaping up nicely.

Sigil 0.5.3 is now available for download.

0.5.2 is now available for download!

This is primarily a maintenance release with a large number of fixes.

There have been some confusion about how find works in, the now released, 0.5.0.

For some time now Sigil has had two different help forums.

I’m happy to announce the release of Sigil version 0.5.0. 0.5.0 comes with a number of bug fixes and some major new features: Inline spell check in code view Support for PCRE in search and replace Translations into 15 languages Please see the changelog for

Introduction A question I often get asked is what kind of workflow is best for creating ebooks.

The first beta for 0.5 (0.4.902) is now available.

The majority of the data loss issues have been mitigated at this point.

I have been working on adding inline spell check to Sigil recently and ran into a quirk on Qt that isn’t immediately obvious.

One of the the new features that has been implemented for 0.5 (release date yet to be determined) is support for Translations.

Thanks to Grzegorz Wolszczak Sigil now (will be part of the 0.5 release) allows users to change keyboard shortcuts for many actions.

About Formatting Tips.

About Formatting tips.

Calibre This week I focused on PDF output.

About Formatting Tips.

This week I finally sat down and spend some time with Markdown input and output.

Introduction With 0.4 my focus has been on getting the existing features in a stable state.

The official Linux packages for Sigil are generic packages.

Sigil 0.4.1 is complete and available.

Since taking over Sigil I haven’t had much time to spend working on calibre.

Introduction Since taking over as the maintainer of Sigil I have spent some time reaching out to specific people in the ebook community to ask them about Sigil.

About Formatting Tips.

Sigil 0.4.1 is complete and available.

About Formatting Tips.

The Barnes and Noble (B&N) Nook has issues reading covers for EPUB files.

Last night I moved Sigil’s SCM from Mercurial (hg) to Git (git).

Previously I posted about an instance of copyright infringement.

About Formatting Tips.

The long awaited Sigil 0.4.0 release is now out.

Update: HamsterSoft has fixed the issue and is now in compliance with the GPL.

About Formatting Tips.

I’ve updated the donation links they now point to my PayPal account.

Right now Sigil is using the Mercurial SCM (source control management).

Thanks to a Sigil user (Bryan) I now have in hand a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

About Formatting Tips.

About Formatting Tips.

Formatting Tips is a series of articles focused on helping format an ebook to make it visually appealing.

Tonight I was able to fix bug 813 (see 837 for details).

The other day it was announced I am now the maintainer of the Sigil.

This week saw some more work on Get Books.

Introduction Over the past few years I’ve been asked numerous times about my position on DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Introduction When Barns and Nobel (B&N) announced the All New Nook, the Simple Touch Reader I was interested.

This is a list of ideas I’ve had or suggestions I’ve received from people about what to do with “Get books” in calibre to make it better.

I’ve updated the Ubuntu PPA for KDocker.

Version 4.6 is now available for direct download.

Barns and Noble has announced and is pre-selling the new Nook second generation Simple Touch Reader (STR).