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• • December 8, 2017 at 1:52 pm #100222
    Clark Kenyon

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    I thought I posted this question yesterday, but I don’t see it here. So let me post it again. I laid out a document that consists of 11 pages, three paragraphs of text and the rest is a numbered list (1-5). Under paragraph 5 there is a numbered sublist (a-c). There are also bulleted lists under every paragraph in the numbered lists, but I don’t think they have anything to do with the problem. I set the numbered lists up properly, by defining a list (“Numbered”) and making the numbered list level 1 and the sublist level 2. So everything looks right in the ID file. But when I export the document to ePub the sublist that’s supposed to appear after paragraph 5 appears instead after paragraph 6, that is, after the last numbered list. It’s as if ID understands that the level 2 list should go after the level 1 list, but only at the end of all level 1 lists. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

  • December 8, 2017 at 2:14 pm #100223
    David Blatner

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    That does sound really weird. Is this all one big story? You aren’t using text frames anchored inside other frames, or separate stories or something?

  • December 8, 2017 at 10:10 pm #100231
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    Yes, all one story. Just 11 pages. Very simple document. All frames are threaded properly. No anchors of any kind.

  • December 8, 2017 at 10:20 pm #100232
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    But I misspoke in my explanation of the problem. There are 6 numbered paragraphs, not 5. The sublist (a-b) appears after paragraph 5 in InDesign, but after paragraph 6, the last numbered paragraph, in the ePub. To test my theory that ID is placing the level 2 list after the last level 1 list paragraph (not where it is in the ID document, after paragraph 5) in the ePub export, I added one more level 1 paragraph (7) consisting of two words. In the export, the level 2 list appears after paragraph 7.

  • December 10, 2017 at 11:50 am #100249
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    It’s something unique to this document. I made up a new ID template with 2 levels of numbered lists and bulleted lists and placed a generic Word document in it. When I exported it to reflowable ePub the problem did not repeat itself. Wish I knew what it was. I like a good mystery.

  • December 10, 2017 at 9:30 pm #100253
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Hm… that does sound like a good mystery. Just in case: try exporting the document to IDML and then opening that IDML and exporting the EPUB again from the new file.

  • December 14, 2017 at 11:20 am #100337
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    No, same problem. Must be something in the Word document, which was created by my client.

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