{"id":3615,"date":"2014-02-11T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2014-02-11T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:22:30","slug":"no-further-development-of-sigil-e-book-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"No further development of Sigil e-book editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/sigil-logo.png\" alt=\"Sigil logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"46\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3619\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigil_%28application%29\">Sigil<\/a>, the open source editor for epub files, is not be developed any more, German IT news site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/open\/meldung\/E-Book-Editor-Sigil-wird-nicht-weiterentwickelt-2109626.html\">Heise reports<\/a>. John Schember, who has been Sigil&#8217;s maintainer since 2011, is taking stock after a few months: he had been hoping for a revival in the cross-platform editor&#8217;s development after <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-none\/Sigil\">moving Sigil&#8217;s code to Github<\/a> in September 2013. However, there have only been a few commits which also mostly concerned minor matters. However, the most recent version of Sigil &#8211; 0.7.4 of October 2013 &#8211; can still continue to be used as long as it still works.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3616\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/556px-Epubsamplesigil.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of Sigil\" width=\"556\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/556px-Epubsamplesigil.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/556px-Epubsamplesigil-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sigil in use on Windows. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As an alternative to Sigil Schember is recommending the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">Calibre e-book manager<\/a>, which has also incorporated an e-book editor in the meantime. Calibre is stable and already comprises many, but not all of the functions provided by Sigil. Calibre&#8217;s editor is also being actively developed. Although Calibre&#8217;s e-book editor is not using any of Sigil&#8217;s code, Schember nevertheless views it as Sigil&#8217;s spiritual successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As John Schember has announced on the Sigil project website, the epub editor will not be actively developed any longer. Even moving the code to Github has not brought about the hoped-for revival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9],"tags":[19,22,12,23],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-language","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}