On 31 May 2013, at 08:06 , Patrick Woolsey <pwool...@barebones.com> wrote:
> First, as a reminder, ePub files are actually Zip archives, and thus all > related considerations apply. Right. But the behavior I am seeing is not the behavior I was expecting. > Thus, when you open a Zip archive, BBEdit will display the files contained > within that archive in a 'synthetic' project window, and this is also why > the project can't be saved as a standalone file (since it's based directly > on the archive). Right, but I am not trying to do that. >> ANd if I try to make changes, it won't let me switch to another file >> in the epub without wanting to save, but of course it is not actually >> able to save the changes to the epub I am trying to edit. > > The first behavior is expected, since BBEdit must incrementally update the > Zip archive, but BBEdit should indeed be able to save any changes you've > made. Hmm. Well, I opened "Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.epub" by force-dragging it to BBedit and I get a pseudo project showing a few files, then Pride_and_prejudice_split_[001-0076].html I click on one of the html files and I change "Jane" to "Joan". I then click on the next file in the list. I get "Do you want to save the changes to "Pride_and_Prejudice_split_005.html" and if I say "Save" then I am asked where I want to save it to. Which means that I cannot edit the ePub file as I was expecting. It appears that I must explode the epub, then I can edit the files as normal, and then I can try to recreate the epub archive as it's supposed to be, knowing that ePub is an astonishingly persnickety form of .zip that breaks if you look at it askance. -- Battlemage? That's not a profession. It barely qualifies as a hobby. 'Battlemage' is about impressive a title as 'Lord of the Dance'. <PAUSE> I'm adding Lord of the Dance to my titles. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
