Sigil
Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
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Published by kevinhendricks over 8 years ago
Sigil 0.9.4 is both a bug fix release and a release to greatly improve epub3 editing and generation all without impacting Sigil's epub2 capabilities.
The main bug fixes are:
* Prevent the use of zero length key fields when obfuscating fonts
* IDPF font obfuscation key accepts all input except as specified
* Fix typo in main.ui accelerator assignment
* Update Transifex project URL
* Prevent NCX Weirdness with ampersand added when editing NCX in codeview and TOC widget showing
* Fix lost namespace attributes on metadata tag
* Allow auto conversion from package version 1.0 to 2.0
* Remove unused parameter from gumbo create_text_node
* Fix bug that hits package version when no xml declaration on opf on import
* Add id to Heading structure to greatly speed up NCX/TOC creation even more
* Only the true nav should ever have the nav manifest property set
* Prevent nav property from being overwritten when updating manifest properties
* Prevent segfault if user selects add semantics but never chooses one
* Prevent Add Cover from returning the wrong doctype for epub3
* Make sure cover-image and svg (if needed) are added as epub3 manifest properties when adding a cover
* Make sure all referenced resources are found for Delete Unused Media
* Remap non-standard epub namespace prefixes in the opf to those now reserved for epub3
* Make loading epubs with broken opf files more robust
* Better identify the true nav when loading epub3s
The main new features available are:
* Completely redesigned the MetaEditor gui to work with both epub2 and epub3 metadata
* Extended epub3 metadata is now supported
* Added the default metadata language and title for the user
* Extracted and updated the MarcRelators codes so they can be shared
* The Nav is now a required part of an epub3
* Sigil will create an empty one upon import if need be
* The Nav TOC can now be generated from Book Headings using the normal CreateTOC tool
* Added support for Adding/Removing Nav Landmarks
* Similar to the NCX, Nav documents can not be deleted, split, or merged
* Completely Revamped the BookBrowser interface to support both Guide and Landmark Semantics
* Created a new Add Semantics Dialog to better handle epub2 and epub3 semantics
* Both Landmark and Guide Semantics now show up in BookBrowser tooltips
* Completely Revamped how the dockable TableOfContents gui widget is built and updated
* Allow dockable Table Of Contents to refresh from Nav under epub3, and NCX under epub2
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.4 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.4 like its predecessor passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video , mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.4 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.
Our plan for moving forward for epub3 support in future releases:
* add gui to easily set epub:type semantics on highlighted tags
* add support to preview fixed layout epubs
* support for media-overlay (SMIL) playback during preview, and in metadata editing
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.4
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply not a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.4-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
Linux Users
There are currently no binary releases available for Linux on the Sigil Release page. Please check with your favorite distro's software repositories to see if they have Sigil for installation via your OS's package management system. If not, there are build instructions for compiling Sigil yourself in the source archive's docs directory: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/tree/master/docs
Don't forget the FlightCrew plugin
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin has been updated for Sigil-0.9.3 (and later). It can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.1
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.4's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please, if you have not already done so download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Some Additional things
When you fire up Sigil for the very first time:
- navigate to the new General Preferences and select the default
epub version you plan to work with (epub 2 or epub3) so that new
empty ebooks start with the correct code. - if you plan to work with epub3 epubs, you should change your
PreserveEntities setting to use ONLY NUMERIC entities.
For example use & # 1 6 0 ; for non-breaking spaces and etc. - We strongly recommend enabling Mend On Open in your settings
for best performance with Sigil
Published by kevinhendricks over 8 years ago
Sigil-0.9.3 Release
Sigil 0.9.3 is a major new release that greatly improves Sigil's ability to work with and generate epub3 ebooks without losing any of its epub2 capabilities. This release also includes a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
The main bug fixes are:
- Add a python based updatechecker for Sigil updates to prevent Windows OpenSSL build issues
- Stop 'Generate TOC' from introducing unnecessary spaces in front of class attibute values
- Use localeAwareCompare to attempt to add Index Entries to build them sorted
- Fix segfault caused by use of possibly stale htmlresource pointer in FlowTab destructor
- Workaround a Qt bug that causes slow selection/highlighting of xhtml in CodeView on Linux
- Fix multiple typos in sigil_gumbo_bs4_adapter code and other plugin interface fixes
The main new features aavailable for both epub2 and epub3 users are:
- Add an autostart/autoclose capability for plugin developers to simplify the plugin user's experience
- Add 3 User-assignable ToolBar Buttons for up to 3 plugins - users can now an assign key accelerators to them
- Add General Settings Preference for setting default (epub 2 or 3) for new documents
- Merge CleanSource Preference Settings into General Settings Preferences
The primary focus of this release was to continue improving Sigil's epub3 capabilities. This involves a number of internal changes and additions to better support epub3 users
- Completely reworked Sigil internals to support epub version (2 or 3) specific functionality
- ImportHTML, ImportEPUB, Splitting and Merging, Index Generation, and Mend
are all now epub version aware and safe for epub3 users
- Add an "Epub3 Tools" submenu to the Tools menu with 3 new epub3 specific tools:
- Update Manifest Properties
- Generate Nav From NCX
- Generate NCX From Nav
- AddModificationDate upon save is now epub2 and epub3 aware
- Added support for MathML in Preview via Mathjax.js-single polyfill (not available in BookView)
- Added support to recognize and update upon load SMIL files and Adobe page-map.xml files
- Recognize and store .vtt and .ttml files for video subtitles and captioning
- Prevent attempts from using Metadata Editor gui from hurting epub3 until support is added later
- Reworked the plugin_launcher epub3 interface code to allow fallback and media-overlay attributes
- Add Setting to control Epub access non-multimedia remote resources
- Add local-storage support to PV/BV for epub3's that use javascripts
- Make quoteurl url scheme-aware in both python and for Qt, since epub3 allows external resources
- Many epub3 related bug fixes and changes to make sure all new epub3 href/links are properly updated
- Extend url address recognition to include track, video, and object elements attributes
- Added the MathML list of void tags to GumboInterface for proper serialization
With these changes in place, and running the first of the epub3 Testsuite (http://epubtest.org/testsuite/) tests for Reflowable Content Tests (EUPTEST 0100), Sigil will now pass all tests except for the following:
Failed Tests:
- vide0-010: support for VP8 video (optional test)
- video-060: suport for TTML video (optional test)
- video-080: support for video with TTML subtitles (optional test)
- trigger-010 ...
trigger-040: support for epub:trigger (required test)
- mathml-080: support for long division (passes on Linux and Mac OS X, fails on Windows)
- mathml-081: support for mstack, mscarries (passes on Linux and Mac OS X, fails on Windows)
- bindings-010: support for opf bindings (optional test)
- fallback-010 ...
fallback-040: support for opf fallbacks (required test)
- switch-010 ...
switch-020: support for epub:switch element (required test)
In addition there is NO support for:
- previewing /working with fixed format layouts
- playback or design set-up of media-overlays
- navigation via epub:cfi (Content Fragment Identifiers).
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.3 enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Sigil-0.9.3 passed all of the following tests for epub3 support: iframe, img, audio, video (except as noted above), mathml, svg (except for svg support in the spine), javascript, and of course recognizing and allowing html5 specific tags like section, and etc. Sigil-0.9.3 also supports javascript based local-storage and display of embedded pdfs.
As there is talk at the IDPF of removing the requirement to support epub:switch and epub:trigger form future versions of the epub3 specifications, these will be very low priority items for the future. Fallbacks and bindings are really things meant for epub viewers and not epub editors in that they control what get shown in the ebook when a user navigates to something the epub reader does not support. You can of course use Sigil to code-up any of these features for use in an epub, it is that Sigil does not have the capability to actually preview it properly for you.
There is still much work that needs to be done to improve epub3 support, but we hope epub3 users will find Sigil-0.9.3 to be a big step forward in this regard.
Our plan for moving forward for epub3 support in future releases:
- add a dc: metadata editor gui for epub3
- add a gui way to easily set epub:type semantics on highlighted text blocks
- change TOC/NAV generation tools to be built directly instead of form an existing NCX
- change TOC/Nav generation to recognize and use epub:type / section semantic information
- add support to preview fixed layout epubs
- add gui editor for more advanced metadata editing to support SMIL and Fixed-Layout epubs
- make the NCX removable in epub3 by preference setting but default to keep it
- support for media-overlay (SMIL) playback during preview
- at a lower priority: add support for epub:trigger, epub:switch during preview
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.3
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply not a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.3-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
The FlightCrew plugin has been updated
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin has been updated from the last release to include support for autostart/autoclose tags and
can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.1
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.2's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please, if you have not already done so download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Published by kevinhendricks almost 9 years ago
Sigil 0.9.2 is a bug fix and stability improvement release of the stable Sigil-0.9.X series
It includes all of the changes and improvements so far and it has shown itself to be very stable in testing. Most of the changes from our last release Sigil-0.9.1 are bug fixes:
Bug Fixes:
- Update BuildingOnLinux docs
- Update Building on Mac OS X docs
- Fix example clips/searches loading on Linux
- Simplify UseBundledInterpreter Logic
- Fix bug when adding existing html links to stylesheets not being updated
- Fix bug in Well-Formed error messages due to bug inside gumbo's error.c
- Add xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" attribute to html tag if missing
- Fix lost DOCTYPE info when splitting or merging
- Completely rework pretty printing via gumbo to be much more robust
- Make identification and storage of page-map.xml more robust
- Restore Sigil's update checker that's been broken for a while
- Update sigil_bs4 prettyprint_xhtml and serialize_xhtml routines to use logic of code in GumboInterface
- Update sigil_bs4 to use numeric entities when faced with nbsp so they do not get lost later in Sigil
- Fix bugs in sigil_bs4/prettyprint_xhtml and serialize_xhtml routines that failed to handle some void tags properly
- Fix out of date error message referencing Tidy
- Coerce missing or bad doctypes to meet either epub2 or epub3 standard
- Inject empty title tag if missing from head
- Html escape Index entry text used to create index.html
Improvements:
- Include Pull Request 161 by pinotree "Switch TempFolder to QTemporaryDir" to improve safety
- Preliminary Linux binary installer support added
- Add ability to change Sigil's user preferences directory by specifying a new path
via the SIGIL_PREFS_DIR environment variable (path must be user-writable).
User Interface Changes:
- Add keyboard accelerators to the Spell Check dialogue see Sigil Issue# 164
- Completely revamp Cleaning to use "Mend Code" and remove PrettyPrintGumbo as on option
- Rename PrettyPrintGumbo to "Mend and Prettify" and move to CodeView Right-click menu and Tools Menu
- Rename "Sanity Check" to "Well-Formed Check EPUB" and remove check icon people confused with FlightCrew
- Change ToValidXHTML by using serialize not prettyprint
It is hoped this release will provide a stable and up-to-date version of Sigil while development work continues on adding some additional epub3 support features.
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.2
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply not a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.2-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
Don't Forget FlightCrew
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin remains unchanged from the last release and can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.0
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.2's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please, if you have not already done so download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Published by kevinhendricks almost 9 years ago
Sigil 0.9.1 is a bug fix and stability improvement release of the stable Sigil-0.9.X series
It includes all of the changes and improvements from our Sigil-0.8.900 series of pre-releases and it has shown itself to be very stable in testing. The changes from our last release Sigil-0.9.0 are all bug fixes:
- Fix bug when template sgc_toc.css could be changed to blank on save, since no InitialLoad() was done
- Change order of TextResource m_IsLoaded and m_CacheInUse flags to minimize potentail race exposure.
- Fix PluginRunner bug that introduced errors into xhtml files when both the content.opf and xhtml were modified
- Automatically XML decode and escape Metadata entries created in the Metadata GUI
- Alter pluginhunspell.py so a missing libhunspell doesn't stop ALL plugins from working
- Default to using clean by gumbo vs prettyprint gumbo in new installs
- Fix prettyprint bug with trailing whitespace improperly inserted after inline tags inside div tags
- Fix for bundled interpreter packages PIL and cssutils on Mac OS X that were missing
- Fix for crash when using Find in BV on pages with no text, only images (issue #156)
- Added testplugin_v010.zip to docs to allow Linux packagers to test their plugin implementation
- Fix for prettyprint bug with tables (issue # 158)
- Fix for serialize in gumbo to limit injection of new lines to barest minimum
- Update Plugin Framework documentation to Revision 6 - see docs/Sigil_Plugin_Framework_rev6.epub
- Make build order of Sigil's internal gumbo deterministic in order to help Linux packagers
- Make plugin launcher success and error messages robust to non-utf-8 strings
- Fix for crash bug when comments exist inside manifest of opf
- Fix for Sigil's internal gumbo to only inject end tags when current token does NOT need to be reprocessed
It is hoped this release will provide a stable and up-to-date version of Sigil while development work begins on adding some additional epub3 support features.
Download Location
The official location for downloading this Sigil release (and all official releases) is:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.1
Downloading binaries from anyplace else is simply not a good idea as they could inject anything into their own downloads. After downloading, please verify the downloaded binary exactly matches what was originally posted by running an SHA 256 checksum on the file before installing it. See the file Sigil-0.9.1-CHECKSUMS.sha256.txt for the correct checksums for each file and instructions for how to calculate a SHA 256 Checksum for your download. The Mac OS X Package has also been code signed with my Apple Developer signature.
Don't Forget FlightCrew
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin remains unchanged from the last release and can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.0
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org (see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/), due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition. To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.1's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version: Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Published by kevinhendricks almost 9 years ago
Sigil 0.9.0 is the first full post Sigil 0.8.7 release. It includes all of the changes and improvements from our Sigil-0.8.900 series of pre-releases and it has shown itself to be stable in our tests. The changes from our last pre-release Sigil-0.8.901 are almost all bug fixes:
- Add "Use Bundled Python" option to bring sanity and choice to Python3 Interpreter selection
- Merge EmbeddedPython code across platforms and fix python flags for all platforms
- Properly build translation base.ts to prevent blank message fields being generated by tr()
- Update to the latest translations from transifex
- Allow PrettyPrint_Gumbo to condense whitespace where allowed
- Fix bug in PluginRunner auto-repair modified xml (opf, ncx), do not check xml with xhtml wellformed check
- Fix bug in plugin epub3 interface, conversion of properties with null strings to None
- Restore ability to override hunspell dictionary locations on Linux with SIGIL_DICTIONARIES env var
- Restore ability to build Sigil against system hunspell libraries on Linux
- Adjust pluginhunspell.py to try to find system hunspell if bundled hunspell is not built/installed
- Fix hang/slowness in TOC creation when huge number of headings all exist in the same file
- Performance speedups for NCX writing to help with slow ToC Creation
- Fix bug for better detecting comments in sanitycheck.py
- Fix bug for Adding Blank xhtml files to an epub3
- Fix bug for Issue 140 - TOC gets cut-off under some platforms (lxml needs utf-8 not unicode)
- Add cmake option INSTALL_BUNDLED_DICTS to enable/disable installation of bundled hunspell dictionaries
- Allow SIGIL_DICTIONARIES env var to specify multiple paths (colon delimited)
- Fix bug in sanitycheck.py error message creation
- Identify woff files as fonts when importing epubs
- Fixes for nbsp being potentially "lost" when linking in stylesheets and when splitting and merging chapters
- Fix for lost whitespace inside text containing tags when pretty printing
- Workaround for broken QShortCut in Qt 5.4.X see Issue 149
- cleanup up some compiler warning
One new "feature" is that the Mac OS X Package has been code signed.
It is hoped this release will provide a stable and up-to-date version of Sigil while development work begins on adding some additional epub3 support features.
Don't Forget FlightCrew
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a plugin for Sigil 0.8.900 and later.
This plugin reamins unchanged from the last release and can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook flightcrew repository if you have not already installed it.
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.0
Attention Mac OS X Users
Per the recommendation of www.python.org, see https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/, due to bugs and the age of Apple's internal Tcl library, you should also download and install ActiveState's ActiveTcl Community Edition.
To get the latest bug fixes, Sigil-0.9.0's embedded Python has been linked with the very latest version:
Tcl 8.6.4.1
We may not redistribute this Package with Sigil due to ActiveState's binary non-redistribution policy.
So please download and install this version of ActiveState's Active Tcl Community Edition, until we get a chance to do our own build of Tcl 8.6.4.1 from source for future releases. ActiveState is a primary contributor to www.python.org and a respected and trusted source for python and tcl/tk related binaries on both Windows and Mac OS X.
See: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads
Version: 8.6.4.1
Published by kevinhendricks about 9 years ago
Sigil 0.8.901 is the second in the pre-release series and primarily is a bug fix release.
If no major showstopper bugs are found, this pre-release will form the official Sigil 0.9.0 release.
Thanks to all who tested and reported bugs in the initial Sigil-0.8.900!
Bug Fixed
- fix for hang when trying to add a cover
- multiple fixes for segfaults in the TOC creation code
- fixes for blank TOC headings caused by tags nested inside of h1-h6 tags
- workaround for an instability caused by a compiler bug in
Visual Studio 2013 on Windows
- fixes for multiple xml header declarations appearing when using sigil_bs4
prettyprint_xhtml() or serialize_xhtml()
- build fixes to include MSVCR100.DLL for Windows machines that are too
new to have it
- fix pretty printing using gumbo to support some mbp: tags
- fixes to deal with self-closing iframe tags which made gumbo stumble
- fixes to more robustly convert from QByteArray types to their char * pointers
- fixes and improvements to the Building on Linux instructions
- protect gumbo parsing with a mutex to prevent unknown issues with potential
for non-reentrant code in that library
- workaround Qt QHash operator()= bugs that caused static QHash objects to
freed multiple times
- fix for internal opf processing encoding detection being confused by xml header
declarations potentially resulting in missing spine and manifest items.
New Features
- new launcher/wrapper code interface to support plugins that operate on epub3
ebooks
- added cssutils, cssselect, and chardet to the site-packages of the embedded
Python 3.4 interpreter
- validation plugins that report no errors will now have "No problems found" appear
in the Sigil Validation window.
- validation plugins will auto accept/close the plugin runner window no matter
the results
- Windows installer now detects whether MS redistributable runtimes are already
installed
Please note, the epub2 validator FlightCrew has been converted to a Sigil 0.8.900
(and later) plugin. This plugin can be downloaded from the official Sigil-Ebook
flightcrew repository:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/releases/tag/0.9.0
Published by kevinhendricks about 9 years ago
Sigil 0.8.900 (first of the pre Sigil 0.9.0 release series)
FYI: Sigil has had most of its internals torn out and rebuilt from scratch with new components including Google’s Gumbo html5 parser and the use of an embedded Python 3.4.3 interpreter with lxml to replace Xerces and Tidy which had some serious issues with potential ePub3 support. As such, we do expect users to run into corner cases we have not yet found ourselves. So please test this new release and report any irregularities you see so that we can quickly iron out any difficulties before continuing our development towards support for both ePub2 and ePub3.
In addition, due to Compiler/DLL literal hell on Windows we have been forced to mix a VS2013 built Sigil, and Qt with a VS 2010 built Python 3.4. Given that Python 3.4 is C based (not C++) and given all python memory allocation/deallocation never crosses over our Python embedded interface, this has not proven to be an issue under all of our testing. That said, once Qt 5.5.1 actually builds with VS2015 on Windows, we will move towards using a VS2015 built version of Sigil, Qt, and Python 3.5 to make sure all pieces of the Sigil app are compiled with the exact same compiler on Windows. On Linux and Mac OS X where the compiler designers actually understand the concept of backwards compatibility using versioned symbols, separation of exception handling, and etc, none of this is an issue.
Features
- Removed Tidy and replaced it with a combination of a specially modified Gumbo
parser that supports html5
- Removed Xerces, XercesExtras, Boost, and unused bundles.
- Updated the source code to be compatible with the latest clang compiler by replacing all
"undefined - behaviour" use of "Null" References with proper pointers across entire codebase
- Completely revamped the build process to embed the Python 3.4 Interpreter
inside of Sigil and integrate it in, including as site-packages:
[lxml, bs4, PIL, regex, six, html5lib]. This will allow plugins
that use the internal Python 3.X engine access to all of these
specialized packages by default with no additional action
needed by end users of their plugin.
- Created our own version of BeautifulSoup4-4.4.0 called sigil_bs4 that
fixes lxml namespace bugs, fixes serialization/prettyprinting of
inline xhtml tags, and modifies the bs4 codebase so that a single
source code works equally well on both Python 2.7 and Python 3.X
- Replaced internal opf and ncx xml processing and cleaning with a
combination of embedded Python 3.4, sigil_bs4 / lxml
- We now build Hunspell as a shared library and added a ctypes interface to allow
plugins to spellcheck
- We now build our modified gumbo html5 parser as a shared library
and provide a bs4 ctypes interface to it for easy xhtml processing
in plugins that use either Python 2.7 or Python 3.X
- Allowed plugins to auto-fix "text/html" media-types to "application/xhtml+xml"
- Began the transition to allow for both epub2 and epub3 editing
(Note: epub3 editing is still incomplete)
- Converted Flightcrew to become a Sigil plugin and replace it with
a simple and fast internal sanity checker.
- Updated Hunspell dictionaries to be actual dictionaries and not just word lists for en_US and en_GB
- Updated other dictionaries to their most current version to match what is used in LibreOffice 5
- Fix issue #54 modified date using local numerials when it should be
using Arabic numerals per the spec.
- Set the book to modified when font's are obfuscated.
- Change FORCE_BUNDLED_COPIES build flag to USE_SYSTEM_LIBS. This flips
the meaning of the flag. Now USE_SYSTEM_LIBS will enable using system
libraries. Also, SYSTEM_LIBS_REQUIRED was added which will fail the
cmake configure if any system libraries are not found instead of
falling back to the bundled copy. Finally, this makes the build more
consistent for Windows and OS X users.
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