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Originally Posted by slowsmile
If you want to know why Adobe InDesign wraps empty spans around everything then you should remember the bad old days of iBook epubs. In those days Apple goofed hugely with their proprietary epub format such that you had to wrap everything and anything that was centered in empty spans(spans with no styling). I think this problem has now been fixed by Apple(it only took them 6 or 7 years to fix it). You can read about this on Liz Castro's old website. This is why InDesign still wraps all text in spans. I call this InDesign feature Adobe Overkill. Unfortunately InDesign still surrounds all text with empty span tags even now. And yes, they are even slower than Apple at fixing anything.
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Now rumor has it that the latest version of indesign actually gives a bit more control over the epub export. unfortunately I need a Windows VM to test it in.
I might give sierra an external partition at some point, because naturally it doesn't work on yosemite which I am very comfortable with. unfortunately parallels has serious graphics problems running sierra in a vm e.g ibooks author you can't see the contents of the document. of course ibooks author on yosemite crashes if it sees an epub. I also forceably removed ibooks from yosemite because it was trying to pull my epub and pdf files off my nas in itunes into some cryptic location.
I'm hoping to get a sane work path eventually.