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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Other Side Note: This also brings up, multiple sets of footnotes, which is quite a complex problem. What if you have one set of "numbered" footnotes, one set of "alphabet" footnotes, one set of "roman numeral" footnotes. I always point to this thread as a "horror show" for footnotes (see Post #19):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=225045
It had a 3 distinct sets of footnotes (Original Footnotes, Translator's Footnotes, American Editor's Footnotes), footnotes in footnotes, and MASSIVE footnotes (one book had a footnote 7 pages long).
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Thank you for the link. That's a
great thread on "footnotes in EPUB". If Google was
truly smart, it would return that thread as the very first search result. But it does not (perhaps because it's in the "Sigil" sub-forum and does not mention footnotes in the thread title at all). I think Google typically sends everyone to
Liz Castro's blog article instead, where she seems to be encouraging everyone to start using "EPUB 3-specific" (that's what it amounts to) coding to generate popup footnotes. As the discussion in the current thread has shown, however, that might not be the best course of action to take, even though over 2 years have now passed since Liz first posted the blog article. Maybe it looked back then as if popup footnotes might soon gain wider acceptance, but not much has changed, really, over the last couple of years.
PS: I'm not sure myself how I ended up finding this thread, but I'm sure glad I found it before starting to fiddle with non-standard coding. All I know is I didn't get here by browsing MobileRead forums normally, but Google sent me in this neighborhood in one way or another.
Thanks to Psymon for launching the thread (the keywords in the thread title hit the mark, too).