Holly, I’m pretty sure, that my code should work in a perfekt world. Even if you have a solution, would you please provide two lines of a real example. Thanks

Kai

Try this one in the GREP-tab:

(?<!.|\v)\r|\r(?!.|\v)

Kai

It is not clear to me, how you create your hyperlinks and I’ve no idea, what the Chicago manual is ;-)

However: I can confirm the spaces in the hyperlinks panel. A little script can repair those blanks:

var allHyperlinks = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks;
var nHyperlinks = allHyperlinks.length;

for (var i = 0; i < nHyperlinks; i++) {
  var curHyperlink = allHyperlinks[i];
  var curStr = curHyperlink.destination.destinationURL.replace(/\x20/g,"");
  curHyperlink.destination.destinationURL = curStr;
}

Kai

Dwayne, to much text! Who should read this …

Anyway:
1. A hyperlink is only a real hyperlink, if it shows up in the hyperlinkspanel! The fact, that a link is clickable in Acrobat, means not, that it is a hyperlink by default!

2. Avoid those artistic breaks inside of hyperlinks! No break or discretionary line break should not be a problem. If so, remove those things in a epub-indesign-file.

3. There are surely some possibilities to automate things and speed up the process, but this need a better understanding of your needs and examples and should not be part of a forums thread.

Kai

How to update the content of a textframe on masterpages, that are not based on each other?

This isn’t so complicated and need only minor preparation:

1. Create on your first mp an empty textframe on both sides
2. Paste in place those two frames to the other masterpages
3. Write your text in the first frame on mp 1
4. Click in your textframe, choose “Place and Link”
5. Choose “Place multiple and keep in conveyor”
6. Simply click with your loaded cursor in every empty frame on your masterpages
7. Make your changes in the first frame
8. Update all occurrences at once with the links panel

btw: There exists a real watermark-feature in InDesign too, but this is only available via scripting!

Kai

This is how it works! If you play with Keep-options you get in newer versions of InDesign css page breaks. But a lot of readers will ignore them. So it is always a good idea, to split your document in multiple files.

Kai

> So I have to decide if I want to continue learning to work with InDesign or learn how to create epubs in a way that gives me more control over the HTML.

No, this isn’t the question. Most books exists already in a print format and the goal is, to transport those well formatted text to html. So, if your book is already in InDesign, stay in InDesign. But if your text is HTML or Word or in Pages, it is maybe better to work with other programs.

Whatever your decision is: Learn to understand the process and built your own workflow!

One last example: InDesign generates wrong CSS for images > it set width and height attributes and some readers will skew the images. So you need first those readers, second you must have the knowledge, what is going wrong here and how to fix it (maybe in BBEdit).

While it might take 5 hours to see AMs training, it will surely take much longer, to understand the whole process ;-)

Kai

This isn’t possible since CS5 (?) anymore. Instead you must loop through all frames and check the label (or name).

Kai