SIGIL - multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor

This is the best open-source WYSIWYG html editor I've seen since Kompozer. While it is not as feature-rich at html as Kompozer it succeeds in its main mission to provide a powerful yet elegant tool to create all the components that are involved in authoring an ePub electronic book.

ePub packages are rather complicated and this tool provides a professional interface to create and manage the html, xml, css, (etc. etc.) components without sugarcoating anything.

I've not spent too much time working with ePub files as my ebookwise e-reader it too old to handle ePub files (even converted) in any useful way. The documentation associated with SIGIL is a great tutorial and reference for learning how to create ePubs from scratch.

sigil - Project Hosting on Google Code: "Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

* Free and open source software under GPLv3
* Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
* Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
* Full EPUB spec support
* WYSIWYG editing
* Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
* Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
* Table Of Contents editor
* Multi-level TOC support
* Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
* SVG support
* Basic XPGT support
* Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode
* Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time
* Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually)
* An actually usable user interface
* Native C application
* Bugs :)
* And a lot more..."