Can you not paste the InDesign documents into one document? Or are the documents too big and/or too complex for that? If you really have to roundtrip them via Word, you’ll have to convert the index markers as plain text, do the roundtrip, then convert the index text tags to Indesign index markers. See https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/lists_indexes.html under ‘convert page references to text tags’ and ‘Build index from textual markers’.

P.

Rafael — Read David’s post carefully. Look for \.psd — you have a space before ‘psd’ so you won’t find any .psd extensions.

P.

One possibility is to use short forms of the DOIs (placeholders) as section prefixes and create a table that maps the short forms to long forms. A relatively simple script would have to override the text frames with the page number on to the document pages so that you can expand the placeholder DOI and mark it up for the index. That script should expand those short forms in the toc and in the index.

…findWhat = “d+.t”;

You have to double the backslashes. There’s no need for the parentheses.

And it might be a good idea to start a new topic for a new query.
And since this query is a script problem, ask the question in the scripting forum.

P.

Ah, pasting a fixed space there works indeed — clever, but far from obvious, mon brave. Why didn’t you mention pasting a character there in the first place?

P.

Kirk — The use of hyphens and dashes differs in the UK and the US (and other Anglophone countries). For US use, consult the Chicago Manual of Style. For UK usage, use New Hart’s Rules (by Oxford University Press).

Nigel’s approach is a funny hybrid. Generally, in the US you use unspaced em-dashes, in Europe (including the UK), spaced en-dashes. So 80% em-dashes with thin or half spaces is somewhere in-between US and European usage. Even their names differ on both sides of the pond: what you call em- and en-dashes are called em- and en-rules in the UK!

Anyway, it’s up to the publisher how they want the punctuation to appear. If your job is for an individual who leaves the design and the copy-edit to you, then follow either the CMS or the Hart’s.

Peter

Difficult to say, Jamie. Could you send me the file so I can see what goes wrong?

That’s a known ‘feature’ of footnotes in frames with column-spanning paragraphs. Not much you can do apart from placing the illustrations as floats, not as inlines.