Hey. Anyone else here do their own formatting? Got a question for you. As I understand it, it's better to load your manuscript into InDesign per chapter, as opposed to pouring the whole thing in as one big file. How do you go about that? I mean, by the time you get to the point where you start the formatting process, a whole big bunch of people will have had their eyes on the manuscript for all kinds of reasons, and they all wanted to receive it as one file. It's easy enough to take the betareader comments and apply them to the separate chapters I have in another folder, but that's going to be a whole lot harder when the proofreader has sniped a few thousand of useless commas. What's logistically tactical here?
Interesting question. I'm not an InDesign user. Publishing is very interesting stuff, though. Does InDesign have a way to generate tables of contents, indexes, or references across multiple files?
If it does, I don't know how. I only ever use it for novels, so it doesn't come up for me. I'm a very basic user. But it's a pretty powerful package, as far as I can tell. I would definitely expect that functionality somewhere within its digital bowels.
