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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And that's a problem how? The content is the content. What books/eBooks do is define how it looks.
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If you define what the content actually is, then you can have intelligent programs that do things with it.
So rather than making poor quality endnotes with hardcoded links, you actually say it is a footnote, and have the reading app display it as such, no matter what the pagination ends up as.
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Yet Dion Cassius evidently regards Helvidius Priscus as a turbulent agitator with dangerous democratic ideals,<note place="foot">D. Cass. 66. 12,
<foreign rend="Greek" lang="el">βασιλείας τε ἀεὶ κατηγόρει καὶ δημοκρατίαν ἐπῄνει</foreign>.</note> and he contrasts his violence with the studied moderation, combined with dignified reserve, displayed by Thrasea in the reign of Nero.
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You've also defined that the foreign text is foreign, and what language it is, so the reading app can choose an appropriate font.
If you are editing or translating an existing text, and find errors, you can include both the original and the correction, and the reading app can allow you to flip back and forth between them.
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Yet there are passages in his writings which leave the impression that, although he may have cultivated a Pythagorean <anchor id="corr14"/><corr sic="aceticism">asceticism</corr> in his youth
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For plays, you can encode with each line which character is speaking it. You can actually define what the text means, and do clever things with it.