I opened my 53-scene project’s compiled .epub in Sigil intending to make a CSS style change that Scrivener doesn’t allow. (Long story.) I was disappointed to find that rather than defining styles in a single file and including it in the xhtml files with a <link…> tag, Scrivener duplicates the styles in every xhtml file. Which means I’d have to make the change 53 times and do that everytime I recompiled. Bummer.
Something to think about? Or is there a way I haven’t discovered?
Thanks. This is something I noted as well and have marked down as a suggestion for future improvement. It is not only easier to edit an ePub file this way, but it is more efficient with byte usage. It’s probably just coming out that way via the Qt conversion engine. There was another issue (in fact, I think you were hit by it, where justification gets lost by a piece that Qt outputs).
Do you have a text editor that is capable of running multi-file search and replace? That’s probably the best option right now. Sublime Text is a good one. Just open the ePub folder in that, and hit Ctrl-Shift-F to access the tool. It can do regexps as well as standard strings.