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![]() ![]() Recently I did a test export of it as an epub and holy moly was it a mess. I've gotten the print version pretty well nailed down, and when creating it I tried to rely on character, paragraph, and object styles and master pages as much as possible to try and make an epub conversion better. The problem is, there are hundreds of inline images. Finally, in a justified block of text, the spaces are fluid the algorithm for text-align:justify will adjust the space between words, making our space inconsistent.So I'm in the process of setting up a book for both print and e-reader and I want it to be reflowable.An ordinary space allows the line to break there if needed-don't forget this is a reflowable eBook. The next problem is that we do not want to allow the Guillemet and the word to be broken over a line.First of all typographic purists will know that this is no ordinary space it is a thin space.Why can't we simply have an empty space, after the word and before the word? This is not the case with the curly quotes used in the English language they, in comparison, simply surround the word with no space. The Guillemet is used in more than just the French language, but a problem arises when needing to use in an eBook, becasue it is traditional to have a space between it and the word that is being quoted. What fun to get the correct spacing for this particularly French punctuation in a reflowable eBook! Good spacing achieved between the word and it's Guillemets Spacing my Guillemets Permanent link to this article Sunday, February 22, 2015įigure 1. InDesign > IDML > iBooks Author template > Chapter.InDesign > ePub > iBooks Author Template.I am looking at the following toolchains: But, neither of these 2 methods are perfect and we need to develop our skills of patience and perseverance in order to achieve our goals. We should make the best of it, and do our best.Īpple have been generous in the latest version of iBooks Author by providing 2 ways that we can get out content from Adobe InDesign into the free 'multi-touch' authoring environment. Software tools that are most often never perfect are those that need to link up with each other across the vendor divide. There will always be the desire for improvement and bug fixing. Template Chooser in iBooks Author From InDesign to iBooks AuthorĬan software ever be perfect? Of course not. Permanent link to this article Saturday, August 15, 2015 How I dislike some books that give me less than a centimetre of margin. Robert Bringhurst's book is exceptional and – it is a beautiful thing. Let's face it, book design and usability does not often win-out over commercial considerations. Putting notes in the side margins is nice if you can afford the space. ![]() Still, tradition dictates that in some books, there are footnotes and some there are endnotes (either at the end of the chapter or the end of the book). Robert Bringhurst doesn't need to bother with those little superscript numbers because the supplementary information is very much nearby for the reader. In The Elements of Typographic Style, the notes are held in the side margins – thus putting the information near and even alongside the reference in the text. If the notes are permitted to move around in the margins – as they were in Renaissance books – they can be present where needed and at the same time enrich the life of the page.” “.the academic habit of relegating notes to the foot of the page or the end of the book is a mirror of Victorian social and domestic practice, in which the kitchen was kept out of sight and the servants were kept below stairs. I start with a quote from Robert Bringhurst in his The Elements of Typographic Style: Footnotes, Endnotes, Sidenotes and Popup Notes Here we see the example of the first footnote in the chapter and the reference number in the text.
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