I am involved in doing Bible translation overseas, and after 20 years of trying to make sure the text is accurate, we came to typesetting hoping that all would go well. It hasn't. Before coming back overseas I had the opportunity to purchase Adobe Creative Suite 2.3, and learned the ins and outs of InDesign. But we work in a language that has long words, and both the paragraph and line composer in InDesign arbitrarily whack off long words to suit the needs of its paragraph composer, not even inserting a discretionary hyphen to leave a trail of the cleavage. [This is a bug in Adobe InDesign about which they are in denial.] We've been forced to use the non-Roman script setting (even though we *are* using a Roman script) just to keep these hard-to-find program misbehaviors from occurring. InDesign seems itself to have been designed to be heavy on graphics and light on text handling. For instance, it cannot properly do the running headers in a Bible, where the "bookname chapter:versespan" (example: Matthew 5:6-17) normally appear at the outside margins instead of page numbers, common Bible typesetting convention. Can Quark handle these kinds of tasks? Can any commercially available typesetting/layout software handle these challenges? I think Corel Ventura used to, but it is/was not Unicode compliant, and we now need a tool that can accept Unicode UTF-8 as input. Thanks ahead of time

InDesign CS3 has gone quite a long way beyond earlier versions in its ability to make running headers using "test variables".

A user-friendly introductory video is available here:

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0217

(Look for 5-minute video entitled "Creating running headers and footers".)