Using Liz Castro's book EPUB: straight to the point

After countless hours of searching the web, You Tube and Indesign Secrets for the initial answers to my quest to create an ePub I finally came upon the book by Elizabeth Castro, entitled EPUB: straight to the point. This book is, in effect, the standard text and required reading for anyone wishing to create proper, working ePub files.

I took the plunge and bought it off Amazon. Although thin, this book is packed with invaluable information about working with and editing ePubs.

After I bought it I read it from cover to cover before making any attempt at rolling my sleeves up and once and for all making my ePub work in the way that I wanted.

I must admit, that one of the deciding factors in my going ahead with the purchase was the lack of information online about how to separate paragraphs within an ePub just as this sentence/paragraph is separated from the three above it, i.e. with a space, also known as a line break.

Anyone familiar with the concept of "<" "br /" "> (I had to write it like this because it caused a proper break in my paragraph) in HTML will know what I mean. When you export ePub files from Indesign what you end up getting is text that follows on with no breaks/space where they existed in the Indesign page.

I am glad to say that I did come across the answer to how this can be overcome, so the book was well worth it.

So, after having a little bit of a play around I managed to get a few things working. It appeared as though I had enough information to get me sorted.

I took a day off work and, armed with my laptop and Castro's EPUB book, set out to spend the day finally getting my epub file done and dusted by following the detailed instructions...