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Old 06-25-2014, 02:12 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Psymon View Post
Okay, I hear ya. I'd actually gotten a bit discouraged about this (again) and ended up working on an entirely different book, but now I'm just wondering, if only to confirm...

When you refer to footnotes/endnotes, for the coding do you mean you're just using a regular HTML link/anchor? That is, basically something like this...

This is a sentence <a href="#footnote">with a footnote.</a>

...and...

<a name="footnote">Here's the footnote.</a>

...and that's it? I haven't tried that out on the iPad yet -- and not to be lazy about it, but assuming you have, then does that give me a "popup" note (with the book being epub2, not epub3), and for the Kindles that are "popup-capable", is that all it takes for footnotes (anchored links) to "popup" as well? For this particular work in question (see the link in my original post), I do think it'd just be so much nicer for all those many notes to "popup", like they do on the web page, rather than constantly jumping back and forth in the text.

Psymon:

Yes. A simple to/from link. You have to code a back link, of course, so that the reader jumps TO the note, and then jumps BACK. While the pop-up notes "look" cool, in truth, it's not that dramatically different to the reader. When you say "rather than constantly jumping back and forth in the text," I, as a reader, don't find it that way and I read a lot of non-fiction material that's heavily annotated, footnoted, etc. You simply click the footnote number (or asterisk, or whatever item is used to indicate the link), you're pretty instantly taken to the footnote, you read it, click the number to return to where you were reading, and bob's-yer-uncle. Frankly, it's EASIER than leaping around with thumbs jammed in books, holding pages, while you flip pages to go find the endnote and the like, in print. I've become downright spoiled on footnotes, et al, in ebooks, to tell the truth.

The footnote link to the footnote:

Code:
<sup><a href="../Text/end.html#fn1" id="ft1">1</a></sup>
The footnote's link back:

Code:
<p class="CLASS NAME HERE"><a href="../Text/chapX.html#ft1" id="fn1">1.</a> TEXT OF FOOTNOTE HERE.</p>
That's all there is to it. These work in my PPW, as pop-ups. In a first-gen iPad w/iBooks, you jump to the footnote and then back. {shrug}. (In iBooks, you can either use the backlink or just click "back" at the bottom of the page/screen.)

Someone else here has been having issues with getting his/her footnotes to pop-up, and sent me some sample books, but we've been a bit behind the 8-ball lately, so I haven't had a chance to respond as much as I'd like, or test his/her material as much as I'd like, either. However, I know ours work, and that's the coding, above.

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