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Old 07-25-2010, 04:52 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
The way it is done in a wiki is to define the footnote text in line with the reference. Something like:

This entry needs a footnote <note>Here is the footnote text</note>. The rest of the text.

Then the reading program can do with it what it wants. Don't restrict your thinking to a paper book.

Dale

I wasn't aware that I was ...

A page in an ebook is a virtual property, certainly with my Gen3 I can have a font size that provides page length (say) 50 lines adjusted to as few as 5.
How would the footnotes be able to cope with this ?

And this is only one reader
It is easy to see other issues with size, compare screens Gen3 and iPod ....
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