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Aaron Troia
ParticipantJeff,
I was trying to think of how to do this in InDesign and at this point, I’m not sure if it’s actually possible within InDesign to style the toc.xhtml list items with InDesign paragraph styles. Here is an ePub file that I threw together as an example. Just unzip it, I tried to comment what was needed in the HTML and give example options of what you could do. I also tried to strip the CSS down to what was absolutely essential, so hopefully it wont be too difficult to see what goes with what.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14902057/TOC-Hidden_Sample.epub
Aaron
ParticipantAnother option for hiding still involves cracking the ePub, but just add a style in your css with
display:none;and style all the front matter with it that you want hidden.Also adding
hidden=""to the landmarks or page-list <nav> items hides those sections in ereaders.February 24, 2016 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Exporting two anchored images in the same paragraph #82239ParticipantThat’s a good question. Off the top of my head, in the code after export, you might be able to do this with a double div wrapping the paragraph. You might make sure that the CSS isnt using the clear property, that could bump an image down.
As a rule of thumb and to keep my stress level down, I usually try and only do one floated object per paragraph, usually. Having 2+ floated images can cause a problem in smaller screens where the images take up most of or all of the screen, I tend think it’s safer to keep them to one side of the screen or the other (so either on the left or right). That doesn’t mean I haven’t done books were alternating paragraphs had alternating left/right floats, but gets tricky when you have multiple floats in one paragraph.
Anyway, glad you found a workaround.
Aaron
ParticipantYou can make notes in ebooks in most ereaders/apps, but not handwriting notes or on the page, its usually after you highlight text, then you are allowed to make a note on what you highlighted. So I’m not sure of the extent of what your client is wanting but most ereaders allow for some note functionality already, but as far as plug-ins that allow more note functionality than there already is, I dont know of any.
Aaron
ParticipantMan I feel Liz Castro had an example file that had something like this in it, but its been awhile so I could be wrong.
ParticipantOf course Jerry, and please test, test, test before publishing and let us know your results.
ParticipantJerry,
Technically Epub 2 and 3 do support the column-count CSS but it doesn’t work correctly on ereader or tablet screens. By that I mean, you will see two columns but it breaks the text mid-chapter (or per HTML document), not per-page (or screen in this case) like you see in print or in InDesign, so your reader will have to read the left column until the end of the chapter, then go back to the start of the chapter and read the right hand column to the end of the chapter. I’ve tested columns over the years on different ereaders with the same outcome, and while I would love to use multiple columns in reflowable ePubs, ereader software (either e-ink, tablet, or app) is still not up to the task to render it correctly on the fly.
To get the two columns, it’s only possible by unzipping the ePub and doing the CSS work by hand, Anne-Marie is correct, from an InDesign export standpoint its not possible in either ePub 2 or 3 exports as InDesign export doesn’t support columns, probably because it really doesn’t work correctly in any ereader.
Aaron
ParticipantHey Jim,
I’m not sure this is possible within InDesign. I for one would love to have more TOC options that would allow this in both print and ePub export. The only way I can think to do it is by unzipping the ePub and doing it by hand.
Aaron
ParticipantDavid,
Thank you for those link, this is definitely something I need to read up on, I can’t believe I didn’t realized that InDesign didn’t do this until now.
Aaron
ParticipantPeter,
Thank you for your response, I dont know why I didn’t think to use ^ with allcaps, it would’ve worked just as easily to do that as what I was trying to do (I apparently was not thinking outside the GREP box). Also thank you for that workaround script, that will come in handy next time.
Aaron
ParticipantHey Jim,
Are you using one continuously threaded text box for the content of your lecture document?
ParticipantI’m guessing this is a reflowable ebook, so either you placed something in the document that is somehow locked in position and not anchored in the text to reflow with the text, or InDesign has giving one of your CSS styles an absolute position (so absolute height and width from the top of the screen, so it’s static not reflowable). Not sure how to fix it without seeing it. I personally would probably unzip the ePub and probably take care of it in the CSS, not sure how to do it in InDesign off the top of my head.
January 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm in reply to: Global InDesign Preferences Now Unique to INDD Files #80794ParticipantI haven’t noticed anything that drastic between files shared between my coworker and I, the only settings I’ve seen come across on someone else’s computer was script (StyLighter) related.
ParticipantHey Jim,
It might depend on where InDesign is putting your CSS in the head of the HTML, if you’re gets listed first and the automated second, yours will get overridden if you are using the same style names. If you name the dropcap character style (and export tag style) something different and assign it to all your dropcaps, then attach it on export, you shouldn’t get overridden by the automated settings.
Aaron
ParticipantI think the only way to do that would be to have a plugin that would export to the Kindle FXL spec, which is different than the EPUB FXL spec. I don’t think there’s really an easy way to go about it other than by hand.
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