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• • July 29, 2014 at 4:59 pm #69749
    Mark Blondin

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    Hello,

    When I export our book from Indesign to epub, the superscript rides above the text line which creates a wider line space above which looks silly. Any suggestions to fix?

    Worst case, I thought about increasing the line spacing. It seems as though there is an adjustment of the superscript (footnotes) that might lower them?

    Help will be much appreciated.

    Mark

  • July 31, 2014 at 1:57 pm #69810
    Aaron Troia

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    Yeah, that does happen (you see it a lot on the Kindle), and I agree that it doesn’t look the best. Well apart from unzipping the ePub and playing with the CSS, have you tried using a Character Style for your Superscript and playing with the baseline shift? I’m not sure playing with the leading in the InDesign file will do much as the superscript is more or less pushing your leading down so increasing your leading will just push it down further, I think this is because everything is on the same layer in the CSS. Another option that I have seen used on the Kindle is using brackets to denote footnotes[1] links in the text, though not as pretty, it’s another idea.

  • August 22, 2014 at 8:09 am #70219
    Rebecca Evans

    Member

    You’ll need to modify the CSS for the superscript span style (it will have the same name as your superscript character style in InDesign) and/or the HTML <sup> tag, whichever is being used in your ePub’s HTML. The following works for me:

    .superscript {
    font-size: 75%;
    line-height: 0;
    vertical-align: super;
    }

    sup {
    line-height: 0;
    }

    The period in front of “superscript” makes it a CSS definition that can be used as a span—the ePub equivalent of an InDesign character style. The “pub” definition does not have a period because it is a standard HTML tag.

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