Sigil 2.5.2 [Update]
Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format (both ePub 2 and ePub 3). It also provides features for advanced users, like direct XHTML, CSS and XPGT editing. You can use it to add any of the metadata entries supported by the EPUB specification and create a hierarchical Table of Contents.
Sigil key features:
- Free and open source software under GPLv3
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux (note Linux only receives limited support)
- Full UTF-16 support
- EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support
- Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
- WYSIWYG editing in Book View
- Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
- Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
- Metadata editor
- User interface translated into many languages
- Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
- Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
- Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
- Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated
- All imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
- Plugins!
Sigil 2.5.1 changelog:
Bug Fixes
- fix CodeView to Preview syncing when cursor on empty lines
- fix build warnings related to overloaded-virtual
New Features
- Add AppImage .desktop file with version information
- strip AppImage bins when possible
- update docs to include Sigil_Plugin_Framework version 15
Sigil 2.5.2 fixes
- fix missing python function replace "file_name" in DryRun and Filter Replacements
- fix CV to Preview syncing to self-closing tags that are bare in body
- workaround recent Qt changes by making PV sync to top when code in CV is not well formed