Hopefully someone will chime in with an answer. I do believe, though, that GREP won’t find what you want because your footnote markers are technically not numbers with tabs. They are footnote markers.

Sorry I’m replying after two weeks.

I’m in book publishing and I’d say that 99 percent of the time we always have space before and after a bulleted list (not between, though). Exceptions may be sub-bulleted lists within bulleted lists. Then those are usually closed up. A numbered list within a bulleted list or a bulleted list within a numbered list is a toss-up. Sometimes they want space before and after, but if the lists are short, they are closed up.

I don’t know if there is really a definitive answer.

Why not just select the blank pages at the end of the file, right click, and delete?

Or am I missing something?

Aaron, I definitely agree that it saves a ton of time on the back end for the guys and gals who do the eBooks. And 99.9999 percent of the time everything has a style sheet. But I do know it takes more time on my end (the front end). I don’t mind that as much except for the crazy deadlines I’m under, designers not doing their part on the front-front end, etc. And have to explain to my bosses why it took me longer to do a certain book than expected.

And the publishers want everything done at rock-bottom prices, not taking into account the extra work involved.

I guess that’s my gripe.

And I’m glad you’ve seen no issues with the Keep Together. Many book publisher’s designers have never used the feature and to them it seems alien or something. Even when I explain how much time it can save, they don’t want to use it.

^^That sounds like such a pain in the ass.

My company has recently been given instructions for how our files need to be for eBooks and that is one of the things we need to do.

What sucks is that our running heads are based on the chapter tiles and the running heads are Upper and Lower Case (not all CAPS). So it has always beneficial to use the palette for CAPS and have the Chapter Title typed Upper and Lower case. It was ideal.

Now it seems that eBooks and how they are structured is making life harder for designers and folks like me who paginate the books in InDesign. With all these things we have to do differently now, it takes longer to do a job. And the publishers want things done quickly and cheaply.

I may start a post with a list of what we can and can’t do according to the publisher’s eBook guru and ask if all of it is necessary.

Example: We are being told we can no longe use the “keep together” option. We use it when paging to avoid widows at the top of the page, keeping heads with text, etc., but they are saying to have it turned off when it goes to eBook.

We are working on a script to “fix” a lot of things being demanded, but sometimes they want to start working on the eBook right at the first pass, and that is not going to work well.

The eBook guru only knows about eBooks, I believe, and nothing about InDesign. And the problem is we are working on the printed book but also at the same time trying to comply with eBook rules. And that really can’t be done.

And–each style has to have a paragraph style? For example, I have a job with a lot of extracts (flush left, paragraph indent left and right. Line space above and below). I have one instance where an A head falls below the extract, and I can’t simply remove the line space below the extract to fix it. I have to create a new style of that extract with no space below. Talk about overkill.