Would love to see the CS5.5 instalment. I'm currently enjoying the CS5 version while working in CS5.5. Most of the information remains relevant.
Epubs are a new world to me and I've learnt a lot (more than I would have hoped necessary!) but still have a long way to go. If I might put a request out there (food for thought perhaps), there are some basic elements I would like to see covered in future instalments (or perhaps I missed them, or I could find tutorials elsewhere?).
For instance, I'm converting books that we typeset for print in InDesign. Many of our books include Section Breaks and Chapter Breaks. Quite often we will have a Dedication or an Epigraph on its own page with no title. In keeping with the print edition, I want each Section Page to appear on a new page, with only the Section Title on it. Likewise, I want all our New Chapters to start on a new page. But because I can only 'Break Document at [one] Paragraph Style' this is made difficult (and I have limited coding expertise!). I wish InDesign included an option to 'Break Document at [multiple] Paragraph Style[s]' so we could set multiple para styles at specific levels (al la the ToC Style options) to create a nice simple parent/child TOC file with all the correct page breaks.
As far as single pages with no titles, such as Epigraphs or Dedications, I began adding generic page titles [eg Epigraph, Dedication], styling them with my New Chapter para style (which I use to Break Doc at), and then effectively 'hid the text' by colouring it with a white swatch. This way it appears in the TOC as 'Epigraph'; and the Epigraph page appears as a new page without a visible title on screen – but it seems so silly – there must be a better way. Same goes for Section Breaks (I could use character styles to differentiate the style from the New Chapter para style, but ideally I want the Section Titles centred and the Chapter Titles left aligned, so I need to do that in paragraph styles).
I'd love to see a video cover this sort of multi-level TOC construction that also catered for the relevant page breaks. While I'm rabbiting on here, I'd also love to see some tutorials on dealing with references, footnotes, endnotes, indexes – some of the common things we deal with in many print books, but I still feel unsure how to reproduce in epubs.
All this said, I hope I haven't threadjacked and diverted too much. Greatest respect for your talents and teaching ability, and I’ll happily finish off the CS5 vids as I await the CS5.5 instalment.
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