Hi, Lynx-lynx
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Hi David
I refer to the super text note numbers that are part of the text in the body of the material.
I take your point re bottom of the page reference notes, but my non-fiction currently seem to favour the superscript style.
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No difference really. Either way of showing a link to a footnote will work if properly used -- and if you can hit that little link which is a bit difficult in most cases. Unfortunately, I've found several books where the text-decoration underline tag was used but there is no actual link defined. For instance in one book, <a class="urllink" href="../Text/footnote1.xhtml#footnote1" id="d1">*</a> is the forward link to a footnote while the reverse link is <a class="urllink" href="../Text/Chapter1.xhtml#d1">*</a> which works. Another book I have had an ebook creator who didn't bother with the work of creating the links. All you got was a number with a <span style="text-decoration:underline; color:blue"> tag and a </span> end tag wrapped around it.
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
So I suppose we can gather that irrespective of the style of note, super text or bottom of the page, there is a link to and from problem irrespective of their highlighted or underscored appearance on the page (which normally means they are defined to work).
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Actually all the underline means in many cases is the the text decoration for the chunk of text was defined as underline.
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Yes Sigil is a way to go, though quite frankly I get around all this another way: I use my BB playbook to read these non-fictions and it is still the best overall ereader I have.
But the Playbook reader app does not highlight or annotate so I need to have my Sony reader at the same time and then I can do those things on that. The reason I don't use the Sony is because unless I'm reading outdoors, or under good overhead light, I require 1 or 2 reading lights.
I bought the Glo for 2 primary reasons: the built in light and the fact that it handled non-fiction.
Hmmmmmmphh ..... no it doesn't handle non-fiction!!  |
Actually, it does handle compliant non-fiction -- I have most of my IBM, Microsoft, Cisco and VMWare documentation as epub documents. The problem is that all too many "epub" ebooks are very minimally standards compliant.