What is Sigil?
Sigil is a multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor with the following features
* Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
* Free and open source software under GPLv3
* Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
* Full UTF-16 support
* Full EPUB 2 spec support
* Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
* Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
* Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
* Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
* 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 FlightCrew EPUB validator
* Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor with the following features
* Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
* Free and open source software under GPLv3
* Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
* Full UTF-16 support
* Full EPUB 2 spec support
* Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
* Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
* Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
* Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
* 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 FlightCrew EPUB validator
* Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
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Platform details
Mac: tested on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
Windows: Tested on XP, Vista x64, Windows 7 x64.
Linux: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rgibert/ebook && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sigil
Tags
- epub
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Open/Free soft must have • Linux Apps for Writers • Epub and Comic Readers/Editors • current stack
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Sigil, and it has gotten 101 likes
- Developed by Strahinja Markovic
- Open Source and Free product.
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Sigil was added to AlternativeTo by Mutant on Mar 1, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020.
It's really fast, and I think epub is better than pdf so this app is a good way for making ebook rather than using latex or word applications