I assume what is wanted here is for the beginning of a chapter to start not at the top of a new page but some distance below the last text of the preceding chapter. There is no automatic way to do this when the chapters are in separate documents. You need to combine all chapters into one document.

[Method 1] If you copy and paste the text from chapter two at the end of the text of chapter one and so on, you will end up with all the text in one story. A lot of work and chance of introducing error. Then, set the para. style for the chapter titles to begin a certain distance below the last text of the preceding chapter. You may need a style to bump the title to the top of the next page in some instances as well.

[Method 2] If you drag the proxies from the pages panel in chapter two and insert after the last page of chapter one and so on, you will end up with each chapter still in its own story. A little less work and less liable to error. Then, add a text frame below the end of the text in the preceding and link it to first text frame of the next chapter. You will then be able to shift the top of the new text frame up and down until the title has the space you want above it.

The script Merge TextFrames from Ajar Productions will combine the text frames into one. There may be other scripts; search for ‘ID merge text frames’. You could then proceed as in Method 1.

If this is a project you are going to be doing over and over, Method 1 or the variant of Method 2 with a script. If it were my project, I would keep the separate files arranged in a book and go back and play with the typesetting and layout to see if I could eliminate the short pages at the ends of the chapters.

I have several suggestions, the first two untested. And, this would be a great feature request.

First, you might try using an anchored frame in the right or bottom margin instead of a frame with text wrap in line as Peter suggested. Perhaps follow the anchor for the frame with a page break marker. This might be manageable but not by any means efficient. For the design of a page to include such a frame, I’m thinking of the first two or three words from the top of the next verso that some printers used to put in the bottom margin of the preceding recto to help readers hold the thought of the writer while turning the page. A great help when one is reading aloud.

Second, I wonder if the ornament that marks the continuation could be exposed as a exportable and printable glyph with a script. I have no idea if this could be done but I have seen scripters bring to the surface other aspects of InDesign that are not accessible through the interface.

Third (and this I tried and there are a number of reasons not to use it if you value the integrity of the text), a character style that applies an underline using Japanese dots to a series of en spaces provides a sort of super-ellipsis. I’m going to play with this a bit and see if it can be improved.

You might also see if there is a user group (IDUG) near you. I believe there are groups in Montréal and Québec.

This is really an editorial problem. You have cells and type of a fixed size. The writers should be given a character count and told not to exceed it. I would accept tracking no more than 20/1000 em, and that rarely. On the other hand, if you are dealing with the official names of companies or something similar that cannot shortened, and overset happens commonly, those responsible for the design need to consider modifications. I would track the frequency and report.

It is a Photoshop file and you should be able to open it with Photoshop on a PC.

This is atypical and it appears to me that Hoefler&Co. have not grouped the ‘grades’ as families.

[1] FEATURE REQUEST/BUG REPORT FORM

[2] From time to time when working with complex documents, I have found the larger thumbnails slow to update.

The procedure is this. Gather the documents in the Book panel and place in the order you want, designate the document you want as the source of the styles with the icon to the left of the list of files in the Book panel, and choose Synchronise Options … from the Book panel’s menu to make sure that the items you want to synchronise are checked, and click ‘Synchronise’.