Editing Courses/Hybrid publishing/Q8 (section)

== Pandoc - converting to ICML==
ICML is a (XML based) file format, from InCopy(Adobe’s own text processor), which can be imported into Adobe InDesign, and maintain its structures (bolds, italics, section titles), etc. 

<pre>pandoc --standalone --from markdown --to icml input.html --output=ouput.icml</pre>


===Importing ICML to inDesign===

* import ICML file to a InDesign project with: File > Place
* Its paragraph and chapter styles remain ''intact'':
* Images are given an empty  placeholder.

=== Design with Styles in inDesign===
'''Style the content only using paragraph and character styles. '''

Paragraph/Characters styles are in: Type > Paragraph/Character Styles

===Updating content in inDesign=== 
If you don't change the content inside a inDesign project.
* the ICML remains linked to the inDesign project, 
* changes: in the performed on Markdown source file will be integrated into the inDesign project.