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Originally Posted by ibu
For the hardware a page exist. It has to render something to fill the display.
That's what I mean with page.
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But, that is NOT a "page." That's an illusion. An XHTML chapter is a "file," which is also a page. The whole file--not just one screenful of it. An e-reading devices renders the entire chapter, start-to-finish, in order to display that single "page," so, no, for hardware, a page does
not exist. Not the way you mean it.
Your assumption continues to be that somehow, someway, the ePUB creator can magically know the mind of the reader, and guess which note will need to be "pre-parsed." Obviously, that cannot be known. Moreover, this entire discussion is just...time-burning.
Even on an ancient Kobo, the time-lag between clicking on a footnote and reading it is miniscule. If you are experiencing long lagtime, then the book is improperly made; some inexperienced bookmaker put the whole book in a single file, say, or had a zillion footnotes, and put them all at the end, in a Notes section, instead of doing the obvious
simple thing: Chapter notes, instead of endnotes, which would solve your ravenous desire for "pre-parsing," as that chapter's footnotes, would, in fact, be "pre-parsed" with the rest of that Chapter's content.
Why are we still talking about this? It doesn't matter where the footnotes are actually located inside the book, as the jump to and fro is simply that, so why not just make them individual chapter notes?
"Pre-parsing." This is an overly-complex, battery-sucking, life-draining, and worse, unnecessary solution to what is, for all intents and purposes, a non-existent problem. Only with the largest tomes can I imagine any sort of real "lag time" and at that point, we're discussing books of academia, more than likely--which hopefully, will be able to afford adequately professional book-makers that will see this problem coming and head it off by the expedient use of Chapter notes, instead of footnotes at the end.
My $.02, FWIW. I'm quite certain that somewhere near the beginning of this thread, some intrepid soul already mentioned this, but I was so gobsmacked to see this topic arise, like Lazarus, that I thought I'd remind us all again that Chapter Notes would resolve this in toto.
Hitch