MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Paperwhite & footnote pop-ups

eFTy · 10-30-2014, 05:00 AM

Thanks for the long & interesting reply, Tex.

I think my post may have been unclear, however. I don't mind having all footnotes on the same page (though I do prefer separate footnote file to having them at the end of each chapter; I'd rather they be seen only when the user wants to see them, and if there's a lot of them it'd be disruptive I think). I don't want more than one footnote to be displayed in the pop-up when the user 'clicks' a footnote link. Without that page break the pop-up simply displays as many paragraphs (from as many footnotes) as it can possibly fit in there (without even a page-break between them). When the page-break is added, the footnote work perfectly, even the little window is only as big as the text requires it to be (instead of covering most of the screen).

The problem is Kindle's guessing approach to determining what is a footnote (and thus gets displayed in the nice pop-up that everyone seems to love). That's also why I move the anchor tag back from the link (otherwise it will just function as a regular link, it won't activate the pop-up).

I was hoping someone here could help with a way to avoid using that page-break between footnotes.

10-30-2014, 05:00 AM	#4
eFTy Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2014 Device: Kindle	Thanks for the long & interesting reply, Tex. I think my post may have been unclear, however. I don't mind having all footnotes on the same page (though I do prefer separate footnote file to having them at the end of each chapter; I'd rather they be seen only when the user wants to see them, and if there's a lot of them it'd be disruptive I think). I don't want more than one footnote to be displayed in the pop-up when the user 'clicks' a footnote link. Without that page break the pop-up simply displays as many paragraphs (from as many footnotes) as it can possibly fit in there (without even a page-break between them). When the page-break is added, the footnote work perfectly, even the little window is only as big as the text requires it to be (instead of covering most of the screen). The problem is Kindle's guessing approach to determining what is a footnote (and thus gets displayed in the nice pop-up that everyone seems to love). That's also why I move the anchor tag back from the link (otherwise it will just function as a regular link, it won't activate the pop-up). I was hoping someone here could help with a way to avoid using that page-break between footnotes.