The Magical Power of CSS (for EPUB Export)

I know any number of us here write everything from tech tips to books on various aspects of using Adobe apps, and it's not... usual to announce such writings except in the context of answering specific related questions. But I just pulled together a little demonstration/tutorial that's such a cute magic trick I thought it might have some general interest on its own.

If you're not particuarly interested in EPUB export from InDesign... move along, move along, nothing to see here. If you are, especially if you've followed any of the discussions about using export settings and CSS styles to get optimal EPUB/Kindle results... you might want to take a few minutes to play with this tutorial file set.

Short form: did you know that CSS export styles alone can turn this InDesign mess —

—into perfect reflowable pages of front matter for an EPUB book?

(Yep. This is also the key to dual-format publication, for PDF/print output and EPUB/Kindle export from a single ID doc.)

Essay and file set here.