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Originally Posted by charleski
The classic example is how to handle a 6-line footnote that is linked to an anchor 4 lines from the bottom of the page.
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Indeed, footnotes are a nightmare in printed books, especially when they are long, frequent and contain further footnotes. But ebooks must not be restricted by what's possible with printed books. One solution is a pop-up or similar method, another solution is letting the footnote area flow independently of the main text: Say you have room for only 3 lines of footnote, and you have to display a footnote 10 lines long... an ebook reader could allow the user to page forward
just the footnote, and leave the main text fixed, no need to turn the whole page to se the rest of the footnote. Something like navigation with frames.