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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Is this ePub going to be just for the iPad or is it for any reader? Because if it is for any reader then you have to make it such that it works on an unknown screen size with an unknown font size.
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Initially for the iPad, but I don't want to be intentionally exclusive to that target.
I liked the idea of the single-use citation, duplicating Bibliography entries (as needed) to handle multiple references to the same citation so that each could do its own proper link-back. As a test, in addition to the full Bibliography page (with no links back), I created a page containing only the citation. It had a link back to the corresponding place in the body of the book. However, that because problematic because I had to include that single-citation page in the 'spine' items (since there was a link to it). So, even though I kept it out of the TOC it was something the user could get to independently, and it because a potentially confusing duplication.
For now, for this book (which, it turns out, actually has few duplicate references to a citation) I am going to create a link on the single (or first) reference in the body of the book and include a link-back to it from the citation in the Bibliography page. For the very few cases that have a second use of the same citation I won't make that a 'live' link in the body.
This solution has spawned as whole new set of questions ... which will be better posted as new questions (threads).