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Originally Posted by theducks

Advanced Mode: Code is the # mark

Splits happen: because you do a Sigil Split to get a segment smaller (ADE mobile has a 260K segment limit).

Conversion software.
The name of your segment is the one you are editing,
The name of the footnotes may be another file if split (or it may be they are Endnotes).
Sigil will adjust filename changes it makes. Are you trying to save ~12 bytes per link?

Thank you Theducks. This book is just for me and won't be going on a mobile device, so hopefully segment splitting won't be an issue. I'm not sure what you mean by 12 bytes per link.

Originally Posted by meme

If your links are working ok, then you don't need to add the filename to the link to make it a full path. There is a bug in Sigil that meant if you chose to split your file into smaller pieces the links would break. That won't be a problem in the next release and it sounds like you won't be splitting your files soon anyway.

Oh, that's good to know. Yep, they all work great and I'd rather not change them if I don't have to.

Originally Posted by meme

First, it doesn't look like you copy/pasted your HTML code correctly since in your description your second line says href instead of id:

It probably looks like this

Source:

<a href="#fn1-01">[*1-01]</a>

Destination:

<a id="fn1-01">[*1-01]</a>

in which case what you need to do is add an ID to every source link, and an href from every destination ID - the ID is the name of the text you want to link to, and href tells the reader what ID to link to. They then become mirror images of each other:

Source:

<a id="text1-01" href="#fn1-01">[*1-01]</a>

Destination:

<a id="fn1-01" href="#text1-01">[*1-01]</a>

Yes, sorry I pasted the same code twice. This is what I used at the footnote locations:

<a id="fn1-01">[*1-01]</a>

It was really quick and simple to link almost 200 footnotes this way in Sigil, and they all work. Thank you so much Meme for the example of how to backlink. That is perfect for someone like me to be able to understand and use. I really appreciate it!

Apologies to Huebi and anyone else I offended by asking my questions here. I was using Sigil to edit my ebook so I thought this was the appropriate place.