Hi everyone,
I have a similar question in regards to having InDesign keep the spaces that already exist ahead of certain paragraphs when the book is exported to ePub format.
In most books, there is some space ahead of certain blocks of text/paragraphs because it makes reading easier or it separates parts of the story, etc. In my case there might be three or four paragraphs that tell part of the story, basically one set of paragraphs, and then I may use some blank space, a break between the preceding block of text/paragraphs and the following one (like I'm about to do here
I want to keep this spacing, but I see a lot of suggestions to simply use "Space before" or "Space after" to put the space in. But I find that puts space before -every- paragraph, leaving each paragraph separated by white space from all the others. That's definitely not what I'm trying to accomplish.
There must be some simple way to have InDesign export what I've written -as it is- without removing all the empty spaces and shoving all the paragraphs together. The idea of changing the entire written book to put a space before specific paragraphs simply because InDesign can't seem to interpret existing lines/spaces is nightmarish. Likewise, having to export InD to ePub then open the file in Sygil or something to edit the ePub sounds a bit embarrassing for a program like InDesign. (If you export to Pdf it comes out looking perfect, blank space and all...so why not handle it going to ePub?)
Any suggestions on how to export a document as it is and have InD convert to ePub and get it right? The help will be greatly appreciated.
-JTT