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Index
Front Matter
Title Page
Quick TOC
Copyright
Thanks
Notes about the EPUB edition
Introduction
Print vs. ebook vs. website
Static vs. Dynamic
Appearance
How it’s read
The order of things
Formats, durability, and batteries
Searchability
Highlighting and sharing passages
Copy protection
Buying new books
What is EPUB?
Navigating a sea of ereaders
Anatomy of an iBooks page
Who is this book for?
Using Word to write EPUB
Styling your Word document
Setting up styles in Word
Applying styles
Saving Word files as HTML
Preparing HTML files for EPUB
Using a text editor
Declaring the file to be XHTML, not HTML
Moving style data to its own file
Declaring the language used
Adding quotation marks around attributes
Using InDesign to create EPUB
About using InDesign for EPUB
One file or many?
Styles in InDesign
Creating styles
Applying the main Body style
Applying headers, quotes, and other special styles
Replacing local formatting with styles
Drop Caps and Nested Styles
Add images
Placing an image
Creating text wrap within the flow
Add links
Creating a style for links
Hyperlinks
Cross-references
Create a navigational TOC
Preparing your book in order to create the navigational TOC
Creating a Table of Contents Style
Add metadata to your ebook
Export EPUB from InDesign
Exporting EPUB from InDesign CS4
Exporting EPUB from InDesign CS5
Inside an EPUB file
Unzipping an EPUB
The files that make up an EPUB
The mimetype file
The META-INF folder
The OEBPS folder
XHTML and CSS files
The toc.ncx file for the navigational TOC
Writing the content.opf file
Creating the cover
Zipping and testing
Organizing files before rezipping
Rezipping after edits
Getting the new EPUB file to the iPad
Further editing, rezipping, and testing
Validating your EPUB file
Converting EPUB to Kindle’s Mobi
Advanced EPUB Formatting
Ensuring ereaders use your CSS
Cleaning up InDesign EPUB files
How InDesign writes XHTML
How InDesign writes CSS
Fonts in your ebook
Choosing fonts
Fonts available for ebooks on the iPad
Ornaments, dingbats, and symbols
Using non-English fonts
Embedding fonts
Controlling text alignment
Keeping elements together
Controlling a header’s position
Keeping captions with their images
Setting widows and orphans properties
Setting page break options
Drop caps and small caps
Having CSS mark the first letter and line
Tagging the first letter and first line explicitly
Controlling spacing
Controlling indents
Formatting short lines
Borders and backgrounds
Creating a sidebar
Hyphenation
Adding soft hyphens
Using left-aligned text
Working with images
Size
Wrapping text around images
Wrapping text around sidebars
Creating links
Creating tables
Video in your ebook
Creating your video
Adding code for the video
Index
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M
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P
Q
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