Index
A
accented characters 151
Adobe Digital Editions 14
metadata display 108
navigational TOC in 98
title display in 105
advanced formatting 129–186
adding video 183–186
alignment 172
backgrounds 169–170
borders 169–170
drop caps 159–162
fonts 138–153
hyphenation 171–172
images 173–178
wrapping text around 175–176
indents 164
inheritance 135–186
insisting on CSS 130
keeping elements together 155–158
links 179–180
orphans and widows 155–158
page breaks 155–158
short lines 165–168
sidebars
creating 169–170
wrapping text around 177–178
small caps 159–162
spacing 163
tables 181–182
a element, for links 179
alternate fonts 140
Arabic font 151
arrows 151
author, entering in InDesign 81
B
backgrounds 169–170
Barebones Software 31
Barnes & Noble Nook. See Nook
borders 169–170
C
caching on iPad, and title 120
captions, keeping with images 156–157
chapter breaks. See also page breaks
automatic in InDesign 89
character set. See language
Chinese font 151
closing slash, add to Word files 43
CMYK images in EPUB files 82
content.opf file 103–119
book title 104
contents of book 109
cover of ebook 115
date 106
graphic 118
guide section 111–112
language of book 106
manifest section 109–110
metadata section 104–119
order of book’s elements 110
spine section 110–111
unique id 105
adding metadata in InDesign 81
specifying in content.opf file 107
cover of ebook 113–118
adding with iTunes 113
size 113
cross-references, in InDesign 73–75
CSS
and EPUB 14
display: inline-block 155–158
ensuring ereaders use yours 130
first-letter pseudo selector 159–160
first-line pseudo selector 160–186
for borders and backgrounds 169–170
generated by InDesign 132–137
importing embedded fonts 153–186
inheritance 135–186
inside EPUB file 96–97
min-width property 182
moving to separate file in Word 33
page break properties 155–158, 158
sibling selectors to control indents 164
small caps 162–186
text-indent property 165–168
D
dashes. See hyphenation
date
in content.opf file 106
InDesign bug 81
dc:date element, in content.opf file 106
dc:identifier element, in content.opf file 105
dc:language element, in content.opf file 106
dc:title element, in content.opf file 104
dingbats 150–151
DRM (Digital Rights Management) 95
drop caps 159–162
in InDesign 57–60
dtb:uid meta element, in content.opf file 105
Dublin Core Metadata
elements 106–107
specification 104
E
ebook. See EPUB, iBooks
sales 7
vs print vs website 8–13
embedding fonts 152–155
in InDesign 84
in Word 34
encryption.xml, file 95
EpubCheck, for validation 126–128
EPUB file 91–128
advanced formatting 129–186
cleaning up from InDesign 131–137
content.opf file 103–119
copying to iPad 122–123
description 14
DRM 95
editing 124–125
encryption.xml 95
files that make up 94–112
Kindle, converting for 128
OEBPS folder (contents) 95–96
organizing contents 119–120
rezipping after edits 120–121
unzipping 92–93
validating 126–128
writing from scratch 91–128
XHTML and CSS 96–97
zipping and testing 119–128
ereaders. See also iBooks, Stanza, Adobe Digital Editions
description 14
Export Book for Digital Editions, option 83
Export Book to EPUB, option 87
exporting to EPUB
from InDesign CS4 83–86
from InDesign CS5 87–90
from Word (roughly) 28–44
F
Filtered HTML, option in Word 29
first-letter pseudo selector 159–160
first-line pseudo selector 160
Flash vs HTML5 183
float property, in CSS 175, 177
@font-face rule 153–154
fonts in ebooks 138–153
available for iPad 141–149
choosing 138–140
crippled in iBooks 140
workaround 140
embedding 152–155
generic 139
non-English 151–152
specify alternate 140
specify by name 138–139
specify by style 139
G
guide, in content.opf file 111–112
and cover of ebook 116
H
H.264 compression 183
headers, controlling position 156
Hebrew font 151
HTML. See also XHTML
and EPUB 14
cleaning up Word files 31
generating with Word 28–30
in ebooks vs websites 8
HTML5 vs Flash 183
HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, 6th Edition 129
hyperlinks 71–73
creating 72–73
destination, creating 71–72
hyphenation 171–172
and Stanza 172
and tables 181
I
Ibis Reader 14
iBooks
alignment 172
anatomy of page 16–17
and iBookstore 13
borders and backgrounds 169
bugs
autoplay video 185
images shrunk in columns 182
styles in different rules 149
video 184
caching of EPUB files 120
cover icon 116
default font size 134
dictionary 106
dingbats 150
DRM 13
first page shown 111
fonts
crippled support for 140
embedded, no support for 17, 153
names for 134
non-English 151
workaround 140
guide in 116
hyphenation 171
justification 172
keeping elements together 155–157
link display 180
metadata display 108
opening book in 123
ornaments 150–152
page breaks 155–157
searching in 11
specifying author in 107
symbols 150
tables in 181–182
titles in 105
validating EPUB for 126
video in 183–185
width property in CSS 175
iBookstore 13
images 173–178
adding to InDesign 61–69
and captions 67–71
and file names 62
keeping caption with 156–157
placing in InDesign 62–64
wrapping text around 64–70, 175–176
Images options
in InDesign CS4 85
in InDesign CS5 88
!important, in CSS 130, 164, 166, 169
indents, controlling 164
InDesign
adding images 61–69
adding links 70–75
automatic chapter breaks 89
bugs
date missing 81
erroneous em conversion 163
cleaning up EPUB files 131–137
creating EPUBs with 45–90
about 46–47
cross-references 73
CSS generated by 132–137
exporting EPUB 82–90
from CS4 83–86
from CS5 87–90
inheritance 135–186
metadata 80–81
one file or many 47
styles 48
XHTML generated by 131–132
inheritance, InDesign vs CSS 135–137
initial page of ebook 111
iPad. See also iBooks
page, anatomy of 16
resolution 17
ISBN
in content.opf file 105
in toc.ncx file 99
iTunes, copying EPUB files to iPad 122
J
Japanese font 151
justification forced by Apple in iBooks 1.1 172
workaround 154
K
keeping elements together 155–158
Kernest.com 153
Kindle 14
converting from EPUB 128
L
language
declared by InDesign 132
declaring in content.opf file 106
declaring in Word file 41
left text alignment 154
linked styles, in Word 36
links
creating by hand 179–180
in InDesign 70–75
styles for 70–71
local formatting
description 53
replacing in InDesign 53–57
M
manifest 109–110
and cover of ebook 115
mathematical symbols 151
max-width property 114
metadata
displayed by ereaders 108
in content.opf file 104–119
in InDesign 80–81
MIME types in manifest 109
min-width property, in CSS 182
Mozilla extensions 170
N
navigational TOC
creating InDesign style for 77–82
generated with InDesign 76–79
preparing InDesign book for 76–77
subentries 102
toc.ncx file for 98–103
navLabel element, in toc.ncx file 100
navMap element, in toc.ncx file 100
navPoint element, in toc.ncx file 100
nested styles, in InDesign 57
non-English fonts 151–152
Nook
and borders and backgrounds 169
and widows and orphans 155, 157
fonts offered 138
Notepad 94
O
OEBPS folder 95–96
Open Packaging Format specification 104
OpenType fonts 153
ornaments 150–151
orphans. See keeping elements together
P
page breaks. See keeping elements together
page, initial 111
poetry, formatting 165–168
points, in Word files 33
print book vs ebook vs website 8–13
publisher, specifying in metadata 107
Q
QuickTime Player 184
quotation marks, in Word files 41
quotes, formatting 165–168
R
relative units, in Word files 38
RGB images in EPUB files 82
S
shapes 151
short lines, formatting 165–168
sidebars
creating 169–171
wrapping text around 177–183
size
of iBooks page 16
small caps 159–162
soft hyphens 171
spacing, controlling 163–168
spine, in content.opf file 110–128
Springy 93
Stanza 14
borders and backgrounds 169
hyphenation dictionaries 172
images 173
line breaks 167
sidebars 178
text wrap 176
in InDesign 48
applying main 50–51
applying special 52–53
creating 49–50
drop caps and nested styles 57
for links 70–71
replacing local formatting 53–57
in Word
adding new 23–24
and CSS 27
applying 26–27
consolidating 36–37
loading from document 25–26
moving to separate file 33
relative units 38
setting up 21–26
using shortcuts 39
style source document 77
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format 153
symbols 150–151
T
table of contents. See also navigational TOC
with cross references in InDesign 73
Table of Contents Style 77–82
tables, creating 181–182
text alignment 154
text-align property 154
TextEdit 94
text editor. See BBEdit, TextWrangler, Notepad++
for editing EPUB files 94
vs word processor 31
text-indent property 165–168
TextWrangler 31
text wrap
around images 175–176
around sidebars 177–178
for drop caps 159–162
in InDesign 64–70
Thai font 151
title of ebook
adding in InDesign 81
and caching 120
in content.opf file 104
language of 104
toc.ncx file 98–103
typefaces. See fonts in ebooks
Typekit 153
Typotheque 153
U
universally unique id. See user id
unzipping EPUB 92–93
URLs, and links 179
user id
in content.opf file 105
in toc.ncx file 99
utf-8 format
and non-English fonts 151
declaring in Word 32–33
in XHTML files 96
V
validating EPUB file 126–128
video, adding 183–186
W
Webkit extensions 170
website
for this book 18
vs print vs ebook 8–13
widows. See keeping elements together
width property, in CSS 174, 176, 178
for video 185
WOFF (Web Open Font Face) format 153
Word, Microsoft 19
adding closing slash 43
adding quotation marks 41
cleaning up 44
declaring language 41
saving files as HTML 28–30
styling your document 20–27
wrapping text
around images 175–176
around sidebars 177–183
X
XHTML
and EPUB 14
generated by InDesign 131–132
inside EPUB file 96–97
XML, and content.opf file 103
xml:lang attribute
adding to Word 41
generated by InDesign 132
Z
Zapf Dingbats 150–151
zipping EPUB file 124–128
again after edits 120–121
commands for 121