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Aaron Troia
ParticipantHey George,
Do you have a linked TOC or did you use InDesign to generate a TOC? If so, those ID selectors are most likely the locations to where your TOC is linking to. Check your TOC links and they will probably be at the end of the link. Also, I believe the “Emit CSS” option applies more to classes than ID’s, as ID’s, while you can apply CSS to them, are more like physical addresses in your HTML for you to be able to link to.
As far as the “include in HTML” feature. This is for things like italics where you just need an <i> tag, previously InDesign would force you to included a class or it would just insert your character style name as the class which was really annoying. this feature was supposed to eliminate the need for having to include classes for tags if they werent needed (e.g. i, b, em, strong, small, sup, sub, etc.). that being said, you will notice with italics that if you uncheck “Include in HTML” and export, you will not have any italic tags at all for some reason.
Anyway I hope some of it made sense and possibly answered some of your questions.
Aaron
ParticipantThe sections are kind of like points you can add thoughout a document, they can control page numbering, the section variable, and a few other things (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html probably could explain it better). So if you select the page in the Page window, right click and select “Numbering & Section Options” you get a little arrow over the page in the Page window. You can add these where ever you want, I’ve used them at the beginning of chapters for using the Section variable (well, before I realized how to use the Running Headers variable). I’m guessing this is what you would need to restart them every chapter.
I was thinking they did, but then remembered that our house style is to restart footnotes every page.
Aaron
ParticipantHey Clark,
Check out SIL’s fonts (https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=fontdownloads) they tend to be pretty good and my go-to place for CJK/Arabic/Hebrew/etc. languages. I found Amiri on Google Fonts that might work (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amiri) or Noto Sans has an Arabic font (https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-arab) thought I could not find a specific Farsi Noto font. I’m not sure if there are any in Typekit but I tend to just go to SIL first for any different languages that I might need. Google Fonts is ok, but it just depends on what you’re needing.
Anyway, I hope that helps,
Aaron
ParticipantDiane,
As far as I know ereaders do not read column-count correctly, though I have not extensively tested this in awhile, but considering industry software such as KindleGen v2.9 has not updated since 2014, I doubt the correct support for it has been added to any current ereader. I say that because thinking of how you have to apply the CSS for two-column, you really can’t add it to the <p> tags or only the paragraphs individually will split to two columns and make the book very much harder to read, so you have to add it to the body tag or a parent div/section tag which the ereader would then treat all the paragraphs and headings equally and split the entire document in half (as it does in a browser) as there is no way to specify that the CSS only break the text to the bounds of the current screen.
I quickly tested
column-count:2;on the <body> tag and then retested on the <section> tag in a recent book, and ADE doesnt appear to support it and neither does iBooks for Mac. I would try it on Kindle but most have a very small screen as it is and dont think it would be wort it (I mean unless you and your readers are still rocking the Kindle DX, but even that wouldnt support modern CSS such as column-count). Personally I think two-column on an e-ink ereader would be more distracting than anything (we always need to keep in mind how things that we do affect the readability of the material, not just how it looks on screen), and while I know this might not match your print book, it’s really not necessary when reading on an ereader.That said, I havent tried flexbox and really dont have time at the moment to do so, but if you would like to test it and share you’re results I would be very interested to hear if it works or not.
Aaron
ParticipantChristopher,
I’ve often wondered the same thing when developing books, I enter all the metadata into the OPF and not sure why. I think ereaders and desktop ebook readers can pull that data, but I’m not sure about its use anywhere else. I know some publishers push out their books metadata in ONYX form to online stores, but I dont have any experience with it.
Not sure how alt text plays into meta, but I think in ebooks it’s mainly more of an accessibility feature for those with visual and auditory impairments who use screen readers to read or listen to books. The alt text for an image for example will give an auditory explanation of what the image is, say if the person listening to the book is visually impaired.
Aaron
ParticipantHey Lili,
Yes it is possible to do it, I’ve done it when a book calls for it, but I do it in the HTML after export. If you are asking if it is possible to do before export in InDesign, I believe it should be by using Cross References and not the Footnote or Endnote features in InDesign, that said, I havent done it personally in InDesign so you might have to test it out and see.
Sorry I didn’t have a more definitive answer, but hopefully that gets you pointed in the right direction,
Aaron
March 6, 2018 at 9:01 am in reply to: MT-Script for InDesign – How can I use Unicode in Find/Change? #102174ParticipantHey Bruno,
For some reason they made Unicode hard to search, I had to search and search to figure out how to find a Unicode character range in InDesign a while back.
Try this,
Find:
\x{0020}
Replace:\x{FFFD}Aaron
ParticipantThat is definitely a weird issue, I tried using
~M\K\r+and InDesign would only find the instances where the column break was on its own line with nothing else but at the same time InDesign couldn’t find anything if the column break was at the end of a paragraph or if the column break had anything else in front of it while on its own line.I was just playing with other break characters, have you tried the standard carriage return (~b)? I just tried
(?<=~b)\r+and it seems to find most instances in my test doc. It’s not a perfect work around, but it might be a faster alternative to doing it by hand even though you probably have to go though and review each instance it finds.ParticipantI just kinda checked out your web page Michele, I’m assuming you’re digitizing your “The Complete Price Guide to Watches” books? I’m not sure the layout, if they are technical manuals or not, but if they are, fixed layout might work for you. In my previous post I wasnt really sure what kind of books you were converting, but the usual rule of thumb for ebook formats is that novel type books should be reflowable while the textbooks and technical manual type books should be fixed layout. Fixed layout tends to be more complex than reflowable and can take more time since everything is fixed, probably why they are charging more, but I’m not sure how Ingram does their conversions.
ParticipantMichele,
To answer your question simply, no, in the reflowable ebook formats, they cannot because the content is not and cannot be set to a fixed page size like a PDF. That’s kind of the nature of reflowable ebooks, and with so many different ereaders and apps on the market there really is no way to control the literal “page size” in the reflowable books that we see in print because everyone wants their device to be unique and each one has a different screen size. Ereaders also dont really have literal “pages” as we think of them in print (unless you do the fixed layout format, which, unless your book is a textbook, you shouldnt use), you kind of have to think of each chapter of your book as one long block of content, similar to how you would see an article on a web page (and if you resize the window it will reflow the content), ereaders populate the screen with as much content as it can and when you resize the text it just adjusts what content is on the screen. A good example of this, if you have an iPad, is to set iBooks to Scroll mode.
Hope that was helpful,
Aaron
ParticipantHey Ronald,
Unfortunately all ereaders are not created equal, so some ereaders, like iBooks, only support 2 levels of nesting, while others, like Kindle, support 3 levels. Knowing this limitation I tend to try to keep my TOC nesting to about 2 levels, but I know that doesnt always work, especially with a case such as yours where that 3rd level that would easily help people dive down deeper to where they want/need to go in the book.
Aaron
January 15, 2018 at 6:30 pm in reply to: Add paragraph style only to a paragraph with 2 lines or more. #100994ParticipantI don’t personally know anyone, but I would ask in the InDesign Add-ons (Scripts, Scripting, and Plug-ins) section of the forum.
January 15, 2018 at 5:47 pm in reply to: EPUB Convert all caps words into uppercase with grep #100993ParticipantHey Riccardo, I don’t think there is a way to do it in InDesign besides going through one by one and manually changing them since InDesign “Change to:” does not support \U. I tend to have the same issue with small caps and I end up fixing them on the backend with GREP in the HTML files.
Aaron
January 15, 2018 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Add paragraph style only to a paragraph with 2 lines or more. #100991ParticipantI don’t think InDesign get’s that specific with their nested styles. I also don’t think there’s a native way to tell InDesign “Apply this style only if the paragraph has greater than or equal to 2 lines.” So yes you will probably have to do them manually, or you might have to look into having someone write a script for something like that.
ParticipantNo problem Jamie :) and that Regex looks perfect, I would’ve used the same thing for what you’re doing.
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