Noah Text Notes

Creating Noah Text books based on suppled Word docs. https://noahtext.com/

Extra material can be converted using the online app: https://app.noahtext.com/.

Do this before you pour the text in InDesign. Best to add it to the Word file.

In Word

Double-check the main text is styled as "Normal" Change font to WeeklyPro Medium.

Create new styles:

  • Chapter Head R: Change font to WeeklyPro Medium (cmd + 1)
  • paragraph first: Change font to WeeklyPro Medium (cmd + 2)
  • texting: change font to Bariol
    • Note if there is only one word then Word wants to eliminate the bold so just add a temp phrase to assign the style and delete

Manually add italics back in cmd-shft + i(do not use character styles).
- I generally go into InDesign, assign a color: red* to italics and then export a RTF to use to compare to the supplied doc.

Search for manual line breaks ^l in the RTF document because they need to be deleted in the Noah doc. - consider replacing them with XXXX ^l color: red to help with making them visible.

At this point you might as well do the above styles although that can be done in InDesign later.

Note: applying Chapter Head R sometimes strips the bold n multi-syllabic numbers like Seven and Eleven

Note: applying paragraph first will strip the italics so do that first, if you are doing it that way

Workflow 2

  • Change italics to RED
  • Export text as rtf
  • convert dedication, authors note, acknowledgements, bio etc. to Noah Text and past in Word doc. (probably this should be a tempalte with styles already applied)?

Open new InCopy doc - make sure default font is arial - fix line breaks, apply styles and italics (cmd+shft+i)

Save

In InDesign

Use the Noah template_rev.indd template.

  1. pour text on dedication page
    • map bold ital and ital to appropriate Weekly styles e.g. Italic -> WeeklyPro Medium It etc.
    • Note sometimes it won't show any fonts in the popup screen. Be sure to click Replace Fonts anyway
  2. add pages in the middle
  3. do search and replaces for character styles
    • Bold, underline checked -> bold-underline
    • Bold, underline unchecked -> bold
    • Medium, underline checked -> underline
    • Medium It, underline checked -> italics-underline
    • Medium It, underline unchecked -> italics
    • Bold It, underline checked -> italics-bold-underline
    • Bold It, underline unchecked -> italics-bold

Note: when doing search and replaces make sure that the underline box is completely unchecked and not just with a slash though it.

If there are character overrides you want to get rid of (e.g. texting gets imported wrong)you can redifine the style (opt click) to what is current, then change it back.

Prep for epub

Replace Orca Book Publishers logo and website on copyright page

Add <BREAK>s where necessary in body
Add <BREAK>s before Disclaimer in backmatter

Double check for special styles i.e. texting

In Sigil

  • Noah backmatter is afterword.xhtml
  • Noah How to is appendix.xhtml

Notes

A11y

  • add note about Noah text in accessibility summary
    • "There is complex formatting used to create the Noah style but it should be ignored by screenreaders."
  • include both textual and visual for accessmodesufficient/accessmode

epub checklist

  1. add weekly-regular font
  2. add new CSS (fonts and custom)
  3. update noah logo (Noah_Text_Logo_LIVE.png -> orca_noah_logo.png)
  4. Change <title>s
  5. check spacing in italics paragraphs and texting paragraphs (sometimes a space appears between letters)
  6. check for .texting-reply and for hyphenated styles rather than spaced i.e texting-underline vs. texting underline

CSS for ebook

/* For Chapter Heads */
@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-Regular.otf");
}

@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: bold;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-SemiBold.otf");
}

/* Custom Noah Text CSS */

figure.titlepage img{
    width: 200px;
    max-width: 100%; /* Note: KF8 doesn't support max-width hence "width: auto;" as fallback */
    margin: 5% 0 0;
}

h1.titlepage{
    margin-top: .5em;
}

p.dedication{
    font-style: normal !important;
}

.texting{
    font-family: sans-serif;
    font-size: .8rem;
    font-weight: normal;
}

i.bold,
.texting.bold{
    font-weight: bold;
}

.texting.italic{
    font-style: italic;
}

.underline{
    text-decoration: underline !important;
}

h2.backmatter,
h3.backmatter{
    margin: 1em 0 .25em;
    text-align: left;
}

p.backmatter-indent{
    font-family: sans-serif;
    text-indent: 1.2em;
}

CSS for ebook OLD

@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-Regular.otf");
}
@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-Regular-it.otf");
}
@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: bold;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-SemiBold.otf");
}
@font-face{
    font-family: weekly;
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight: bold;
    src: url("../font/WeeklyPro-SemiBold-it.otf");
}

/* NOAHTEXT */

p {
    font-family: weekly, sans-serif;
    line-height:1.5;
}

h1.chapter-title {
    font-family: weekly, sans-serif;
    margin-right: 1em;
    text-align: right;
}

.underline {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

.bold {
    font-weight: bold;
}

h1.frontmatter {
    font-family: serif;
    margin: 10% 0 .15em;
    text-align: left;
}

h2.frontmatter {
    font-family: serif;
    margin-top: .8em;
    text-align: left;
}

h3.frontmatter {
    font-family: serif;
    font-size: 1.1em;
    font-style: italic;
    margin-top: .5em;
    text-align: left;
}

p.frontmatter-sub {
    font-family: sans-serif;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    text-indent: 0;
    margin:0;
}

p.frontmatter {
    font-family: serif;
    text-indent: 0;
}

p.frontmatter-indent {
    font-family: weekly, sans-serif;
    margin-left: 1.5em;
    text-indent: 0;
}