Also, is there a reason you aren't outputting to PDF? If you aren't trying to sell the book, that might be your best option.

PDF is a proprietary format owned by Adobe. Adobe is the only entity that can update it and improve it and adapt it for reading devices. People making ebooks would have to buy Adobe products or a product that could create an e-reader friendly pdf. Adobe would control the whole market. Also, the comanies with reading devices and bookstores would have to get the right from Adobe to digital rights manage the books they sell. They would probably need to get a license for each book title.

Epub is an open standard so it's better for bookstores, publishers, authors and book designers. It is html-based and a lot of people know how to edit html already. It's got a ways to go to match pdf for fixed layout. But for novels, it's already there. Novels are a huge part of the ereading market and probably what epub was originally intended for.

Well, this is a Microsoft Word tip, not InDesign. There is no way to bring in the unformatted text into InDesign and hope for ID to magically format it for you. All I can tell you is how to have Word highlight the changes so you can manually make the same changes to your ID file.

Docx is not really what I wanted to know. I wanted to know what version of Microsoft Word you are using (e.g. Windows 2007, Mac 2011, etc.). But I will tell you how to do it on the Mac Word 2011 and if that's not what you have, I'm sorry.

Open both the changed document and the original document in Word. From the Tools menu choose Track Changes –> Compare Documents. On the left, click the blank menu bar and choose the original document. On the right, click the blank menu bar choose the changed document. Click OK. From the row of tabs above your document, choose “Review”. There are previous/next buttons on that bar that will let you navigate through the document changes. Hope this helps. If you are using Word for Windows, check out this web page.

Is this what you're talking about?

If so, I don't believe they used InDesign to create it. They either program the iOS and Java apps themselves or use something like Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite. They charge on a per-issue basis for this product though I don't know much else about it.

Not sure if this is helpful but I have Lion and CS5 (not 5.5) on one of my computers and I get typographer's quotes just fine. Either manually or through the preference. I wonder if deleting your preferences file would help. Or perhaps it's the font you are using.

To do the drop cap with an image, use an img class. Here's the css code.

img.dropcap {

float:left;

}

Then in your html, tag all of those drop cap images with class=”dropcap” (you can change dropcap to something else if you want). Not sure if you can export from InDesign with the class already applied. That would be cool but I don't know how to do it. I know in CS 5.5, InDesign uses object styles to create div classes but I'm not sure how to create img classes.

To do your drop cap with text, you can embed the font you want to use for the dropcap (it's an option in the output I think on the Contents tab) and then use this code in your css:

span.dropcap {

font-family: “font name”;

font-weight: bold;

font-size: 4em;

float:left;

line-height: 1em;

}

In CSS, “dropcap” is the span class. In InDesign, it's a character style (you can use something other than dropcap if you want of course). In CS 4 I think you may need to use Jongware's handy preptext script to turn drop caps and nested styles into regularly applied character styles. Make your drop cap style bold and preptext will create a “bold” character style that you can then rename to dropcap (or whatever you like to match your css span class) provided you don't have any other bold in your file – if you do, use small caps to create the Scap style or pick one of the other styles it creates. You don't need to do this in 5.5 as InDesign now outputs dropcaps and nested styles as character styles.