Have an option preference menu

[bibimbop]

This menu option would open a window, where the following preferences could be set:

• General options
  • name of the project: this could be used when generating the html, in the title tag. This could also be displayed in the main menu to display the project name instead of the filename.
  • preference for html generation (html4/5, xhtml1/1.1)
  • path to a default html header
  • desired write encoding (latin1, utf8, latin1 else utf8, ???)
• Current project options
  • desired write encoding (default, latin1, utf8, latin1 else utf8, ???). If set, override the default in the general options.
  • name or path to sister project(s). Used to latin1/utf8/html versions. This could be used in the (future) check tab to compare both version. There could also be a button somewhere to easily switch between versions.
  • always/don't save a guiguts bin file. Today's reality is that PPVers use guiguts. That (cheap) option will allow to also save a guiguts bin file when saving the document. That ensure that when submiting the book for PPV, the bin file is accurate. This could also be a general option, and the document option may override it.

[tallforasmurf]

I like this, and I have seen similar things in other applications. I bet we can think of even more things to put in the dialog. (Preferred dictionary for spellcheck?)

I see it as a modal dialog that comes up from, say, File > Document Properties ? Need to figure out the proper encoding of these properties in the .meta file. I will look at this next week.

Feel free to add more comments. Especially, how do you envision managing multiple versions of a book? Because it is really simple to just have two (or three) instances of PPQT running, and copy/paste between them.

[bibimbop]

I don't like having several instances of PPQT. Eventually they look the same to me. I just open the document I need.

Another use to loosely link the documents together, is that one day PPQT could have a button to generate a PPV zipfile.

[tallforasmurf]

Got a bit of a properties dialog. Needs more work. Closing for now, create new issue to request a specific field/function for it.