Do they undestand what an EPUB really is? Because with any eReader I've encountered, you can just search for the word you want and get taken right to the section. So I can't see why a word based index would even be useful…

Another “duct tape” idea would be to just type the chord right after the letter you want it to appear over (for example, type the first “a” after the “o” in down, so that it reads “doawn”) Then select the “a”, raise the baseline to an amount the you like, then put the cursor in front of the chord letter and kern it so close to the letter prior that the space the “a” used to take up now disappears. I tried this with your first line of lyrics, and it seemed to work fairly well. You have to make adjustments to the baseline shift if you increase the point size, and when you change fonts the kerning might need to be adjusted. But overall, when I increased the font size to make the text wrap and when I changed the font to several different fonts, the chords basically stayed where they were supposed to. You can apply the baseline shift with a character style. I don't think you can do the same with the kerning, esp since the amount of negative kerning needed will differ for each chord notation. But it's an idea :)

What you can do is install a remote desktop app on your iPad. I use Splashtop, but there are a bunch out there. You install a streamer program on your main computer and the app on your iPad. Then you log into your computer through the app. It displays your regular computer right on the iPad and you can control your computer from the iPad. If you were doing this and looked at the monitor of your main computer at the same time, it would look like a ghost was sitting at your computer and using it.

While it is not EASY to work this way, you can do it in a pinch. Having an iPad stylus is a big help if you attempt this.

I like to use this Javascript option. It's the last one listed on the link below. It adds a new export option called “EPUB with corrected links.” As the name says, it fixes the problems ID sometimes has with internal links. But also, at the very end, it causes a dialogue box to pop up for you to insert the year of publication.

https://www.teusdejong.nl/thome…..body5.html

Here's my current workaround for this:

1) In InDesign, I add the words I want to appear in the TOC to the top of those pages: Cover, Title Page, Copyright Information, and Dedication. I assign them to a paragraph sytle called “cover” and I add this paragraph style to the EPUB TOC.

2) After I export the file as “EPUB with corrected links” (a plug in) I then open the EPUB file in Sigil for some manipulation

3) In the CSS file, I change the “cover” info to this:

h1.cover {

font-family: “Times New Roman”;

font-weight: normal;

font-style: normal;

font-size: 0.1em;

line-height: 0.2em;

text-decoration: none;

font-variant: normal;

text-indent: 0em;

text-align: center;

color: #FCFCFC;

margin: 0em;

}

This turns those page titles essentially invisible, yet they are still there and thus recognized by the TOC. The important parts of that CSS style is the font size of 0.1em, the line height of 0.2em, and the color of FCFCFC. (You could probably just delete the other pieces. This is just copied from a standard CSS sheet I use for a certain client.) The font size and line height attributes make the text extremely small. The color makes the text white, which means it dissappears on most eReaders, unless you are using a device like the iPad where it is backlit and you can choose to pick a colored background. In that case, the words would be visible, but they'd be so small that it probably still wouldn't be noticed.

You are welcome. You seem to have it all correct.

You might want to check with your printer to see whether or not they CAN print on the inside of the cover. That might not be an option for you. If it is, then they would probably want just one file that contains the front inside image, spine blank area, back inside image (as if the cover were a two sided page). If it isn't, then you will want to put those images in the interior file, perhaps as the very first and very last pages. My guess is that you won't be able to print on the back side of the cover, but I could be wrong. I glanced through a bunch of paperback books on my bookshelf, and none of them contain anything on the back side of the cover.

Also, check with your printer, but all the ones I have worked with for perfect bound trade paperback require that your interior file have a page count that is a multiple of four. If it isn't, you will need to add blank pages in the front or back or elsewhere to get your page count to a multple of four (i.e., page count of 228 is good, page count of 230 is not).

I can only answer from my experience with my publishers and printers:

1) The interior file and the exterior wrap cover are two separate files. You will send the printer an interior file with pages that are sized according to the book. For example, if you are doing a trade paperback, each page would be 5.5 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall. You can set it up in InDesign as facing pages, but the printer will want you to export it as individual pages, not two page spreads. The wrap-around cover will be provided as one file. They aren't going to want you to send them separate files for the back, spine, and front portions. They will want you to send it in the exact dimensions of the final book, no extra bleed space added on, but usually they will tell you to not put important information within 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the borders, as this area is subject to getting cut.

2) I don't understand this question. But unless you want an image of the cover to appear INSIDE the book, then you should not include them in your interior file

3) You should not need to set a specific bleed margin, but you may want to make your inside margins for the text be wider than the outside margins. For example, when I set a fiction novel as a perfect bound trade paperback, I typically make my interior margin 0.8125 in and my exterior margin 0.75 in. This results in a book that opens well without the owner having to pull hard at the binding to read the text near the spine, and it allows ample room for the person to hold the book open and not have to move their thumbs to read text that comes to the outside margins.