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Originally Posted by eping
Very simple, it's problem on paper, but not problem on screen, easy for programming.
Just set a limitation of lines of footnotes, such as 5, (or percentage of screen height). If footnote exceeds 5 lines, then at the end of footnotes add ...(more) and a small button or link, for user to pop up a window to read whole footnote.
Still, the problem is, they just don't do it. ( I mean the software developer for ereaders, such as Adobe)
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It's not quite
that simple. What the reader does to display (or even "page" the larger) footnotes would certainly not have to be very complicated--I agree. But there does need to be
something done on the part of the content creator to indicate to the rendering engine that THIS is a footnote. It can't just popup-ify all links it encounters after all (think ToC). So there's going to need to be some sort of consensus about what the code looks like the represents a footnote link ... as well as a consensus on how the target code (the part that's actually going to be popped up) should be formatted. So while I agree that it doesn't
have to be complicated at all, it would probably be best if it was standardized in some manner.
Of course that won't happen. All devices/apps will handle pop-up footnotes slightly proprietarily (as we're already beginning to see), meaning content creators will have even more work involved in providing consistent source code for wide-spread distribution of the exact same content.
