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• • November 29, 2018 at 9:00 am #111877
    Bryana Anderle

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    Hello, for the life of me I can’t figure out this issue I’m having. When I export my book from Indesign to Epub 3.0, the endnote reference numbers at the end of the book (not within the body of the book, just in the Endnotes section) are becoming regular numbers and not superscript like I have them formatted. They are set up with character styles, but also were imported as superscript. Like I said, in the body of the book the endnote superscript references are there. It’s just at the end. Please help!

  • November 29, 2018 at 9:20 am #111878
    Aaron Troia

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    Hello Bryana,

    Off the top of my head I’m not sure why, I our house style doesnt superscript the numbers in the endnotes section but just thinking of how InDesign would export and not superscript the numbers.

    Do you happen to have the numbers in your endnotes section set up with the Bullets and Numbering within your paragraph style? That would export as an ordered list in the HTML and probably wouldnt export as superscripted numbers, you might be able to superscript the numbers in CSS, but I’m not sure.

    If they’re hard coded numbers (ie someone typed them in), you said you have a character style applied to them, are you exporting with InDesign CSS or a custom CSS stylesheet)? also have you looked at the CSS to see what its doing (or not doing) and maybe looked to see if there were any conflicting CSS classes?

    Aaron

  • November 29, 2018 at 11:11 am #111879
    Bryana Anderle

    Member

    Hmm. No, the paragraph style is not set up with Bullets and Numbering.

    They are the generated numbers– so they weren’t typed in. I’m not sure about the CSS stuff… I’m not that experienced at it yet, but in the HTML/CSS export settings, this is what I have:

    >Include classes in HTML
    >Generate CSS (is checked)
    >Preserve Local Overrides (is checked)
    >Include Embeddable Fonts (is checked)

    I don’t have a style sheet or additional CSS – is that something I should be doing?

    Thanks for the help.

  • November 29, 2018 at 11:59 am #111880
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    Bryana,

    No problem, hopefully we can figure it out.

    So how were the numbers generated? were they generated from using InDesign’s Endnotes feature?

    No, you don’t need to have an additional stylesheet, I was just asking because I wasnt sure how experienced you were with CSS and wanted to rule out any CSS conflicts that could be occurring if you did.

  • November 29, 2018 at 12:22 pm #111881
    Bryana Anderle

    Member

    Correct, generated using the Endnotes feature. Well, technically all of the text was imported/placed from a Word doc originally.

  • November 29, 2018 at 1:08 pm #111882
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    ok, that might be where the issue is coming from.

    I just did a test export with a chapter I have with endnotes using the Endnotes feature both with the normal import and with the static text import and added a superscript character style to the numbers on both. I’m looking at the HTML and CSS and it appears with the standard import it doesnt retain the superscripted character style in the endnotes section but you have live links to your endnote numbers in the text. The static text import retains the superscripted character style but does not link to your endnote numbers in the text. I dont know why InDesign is overriding that character style on Export, looking at the code it really shouldnt be a problem to implement, each number has two character styles applied to the anchor tag that arent even in the stylesheet (so basically they’re unused), by simply adding vertical-align:super; to one of the classes it superscripts them.

    Anyway, sorry that took a little tangent into the HTML and CSS. But off the top of my head I dont know of a work around in InDesign to keep the numbers superscripted on export since it appears that they are overriding character styles, well, besides going into the HTML and CSS itself and adding it by hand.

    Hope that made sense, I might submit this to the InDesign feedback page because it really shouldnt override superscripting on ePub Export.

  • November 29, 2018 at 1:41 pm #111884
    Bryana Anderle

    Member

    Hmm. Interesting. That is weird. I did actually try to do the CSS superscript CSS to the tag, but that didn’t seem to work for me. Next time I’ll try the static import, since I don’t particularly need the endnotes linked.

    Thanks so much for your help! That sheds some light on the issue and at least I know it’s not user error! :)

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