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Originally Posted by zekton
I thought the book did it this way but when I checked back it had the wedge and the word highlighted and linked together and it looks OK. So that's probably best.
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Typically, it is recommended to just surround the number/symbol with brackets.
So a "^" back link will turn into a "[^]" or a "1" will turn into a "[1]" or "a" will turn into "[a]".
It is much easier to touch 3+ characters than 1 (ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE SUPERSCRIPT).
All the books that I convert now for work, we decided to settle on using the a non-superscript [##] format. This allows for:
- Easy touch/click
- No line-height problems
- Easier for the visually impaired to read
- Users who read at an extremely large font size for sight reasons will not be able to read the superscript footnote as clearly.
The bracketed + non-superscript footnotes do look a little unsightly, but I believe the advantages outweigh the costs.
With more and more devices going towards touch, and more and more reading digital content, this will only help.