I was able to successfully import my first book manuscript into InDesign, retaining the formatting (including many footnotes) and only needing to tweak page breaks and style the chapter heads.

Now I have another title with even more complex formatting: no footnotes, but verse superscripts throughout the text. I placed it and began work with everything looking fine, BUT the text goes invisible at page 28, with empty text frames numbering over 300 pages.

Oddly, the text can be placed if I go with letter-sized pages. I am getting a little desperate here…