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I have noticed that when I make an Epub out of InDesign, the formatting seems to be that of the original source document, and nothing I've done (yet) in inDesign effects the epub. I probably don't have somehting set up good in InDesign.
Message #29 of this thread has an attachment that has all my source. The epub in that zip is bad - Message #39 of this thread has the latest-generation build out of Calibre that I would deem successful.
Epub generation out of InDesign with THAT as the source file group is all still wrong - just the TOC shows up, no links, no nothing.
Not willing to give up on it JUST yet, I:
A) Built an InDesign Book (which is just a container for InDesign Documents)
B) Converted my html source back to Word Docs, in order to:
C) Place the Word Docs in InDesign Documents, 1 .doc per book per document. Ended up with 4 IdCs3 documents (Toc, Philemon, 1st Peter, 2nd Peter) in the InDesign Book.
D) Hmmm. Cross-Media Exporting to Epub is not available for InDesign Books - only InDesign Documents. So if you can't get it all into 1 InDesign Document, IDcs3 cannot export it to Epub - it can only print it. (Kinda like Quark, so the "book" metaphor in both programs are print-only constructs).
E) So I exported a Postscript file of the IDcs3 book, Distilled a PDF, used Any2epub from calibre to make an epub from that pdf (attached here for a laugh) - no hyperlinks, no space between books or chapter, no working toc. The Comments/Footnotes evaporated, too.
F) The PDF doesn't have working hyperlinks either - If I think about it long enough, I might be able to get that to work there.
So, InDesign is still beyond my best understanding for making Epubs. Calibre seems to have worked (thanks to Mr. Goyal's continued efforts).
As far as styles go, I built the original documents in Microsoft Word, and used standard Styles in word - Title, Heading 1, Normal, Emphasis, etc. Saved as Html-Filtered.
Word embeds the style calls into the html itself, so it's kinda like a css, but not quite. If were truly clever, I would build a set of css's to do what I want to mimick the Word styles I'm interested in, and then try again. Thing is, I'm wanting to do tricks I'm having trouble getting Word to accomplish - and I don't feel ready to make the leap to DreamWeaver yet (just too many handy things in Word, like spell checker, grammer checker, macros, etc for me to chuck it)
-bjc
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