Hi Anne-Marie,Thank you so much for your reply. I attach a 2-page spread. I’ve been through the whole book now moving the recto pages that should be verso and vice versa — but when the amendments start coming in (which they will in this military history world!), the text, pics and captions will stay where they are as in the ’07 ch 5 experiment’ that I ran at lunch time (in the UK!). I attach ‘unequal columns.jpg’ which is how the book looks now.
I’ve received a pointer from William Adams on the InDesign google list: ‘And no, I’m not still bitter that pretty much every time I’ve taken the effort to create such a document template / layout and to then write up carefully how to use it, that the graphic designers aren’t willing to be disciplined enough to take advantage of such features, choosing instead to draw boxes and create new paragraph styles which over-ride said features. Actually, yes, yes I am. I hate it, and I hate the incompetence which that is a sign of and which one sees in all-too-many contemporary books (such as https://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/virtuoso_excerpt.pdf (how in the Hell Joanna could be a suitable typeface choice for an American book, about a childless Civil War Veteran’s tool cabinet, which is filled w/ fractions and numbers is beyond me — the ragged bottom, many widows, bad breaks and worse hyphenation and trapped whitespace are just salt in the wound) — and of course, there’s the whole matter of their still not fixing the duplicated photo, so that where there should be two pairs of jeweler’s pliers, instead one has a photo of a pair of flat pliers)’
which I haven’t followed yet but have every intention of doing so when there’s a clear moment. I made the two columns following instructions on this website (where else!). Nothing is anchored, I never do in books unless there are references in the margins as opposed to Fns. Pics are always at the top or bottom (or always at the top if there are Fns).
Oh dear, don’t know how to load/submit the files into this …
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