Reply To: Index in ePub: Converting index to cross-references?

Hi Anne-Marie,
thanks for your thoughts. Sure I know your Lynda.com title ;-). And you don’t have to go the way around with the rtf. It’s enough when you cut the index/toc and place it back directly in InDesign. Then the export will ‘see’ it. Don’t ask me why.

Yes, my problems are the links within the index. I was wondering if there is a possibility to change the kind of entry – in this case from a hyperlink to a page to a hyperlink to the corresponding index-entry. This would make sense – even in an ePub.

I started to add a marker additionally to the (in this case) name of an author. Then I changed the hyperlink in the index from page based to text anchor based. If I now look in story editor view at the name of an author in the story I have these two little signs.
But to be honest – this is all crap. It’s a book and I’m using CS5 and you know what happens to links within book files. So instead I’m doing all this creasy workarounds and fixing the links in the html docs. It would be easier, the user would do a text search within the ePub ;-).

Thanks for the link tipp.

Jeldrik