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Originally Posted by Faterson
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. |
Listen, I like Liz as much as the next guy--and we (my company) supports her blog, but she's exceedingly Apple-centric. Even her formidable tome on ePUB (Straight to the Point) is pretty much all Apple, All the Time. I still recommend it, because to my mind, it's the best "primer" out there for newbs, even some years later (e.g., "what's an OPF?"), but the Google results are, indeed, frustrating. Much of what happens in ePUB is mostly discussed HERE, on MR, to my mind. Of course, I might just think that because this is where I hang my own hat, to relax with my peeps, so to speak.
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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).
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Good, glad you found it. I've been all around that block on footnotes, trust me. We get a lot of Mac-centric folks in here, who have iPads, and only want "popup footnotes," but, I've had them come BACK, too, when they realized that that market share was pretty tiny. {shrug}. It's not like I didn't warn them--LOUDLY--that what they wanted wouldn't work everywhere.
Folks think that I say "use this basic footnote coding" just
because, but that's not it; it's because I've
tried the other methods, or
struck-out with the other methods, etc. I mean, look at your own self--you looked, analyzed, assessed, and...yup, here you are, back at the basic two-way footnote, relying on the device to do the lifting, if applicable. It's really all that can be done,
at this time.
It's a hard road, really. People out there don't think about what it's like to try to make your ducats on something that changes by the day, and by the retailer. I mean, sure, if you're doing fiction books by uploading Word, it's not complex. But if you're trying to do more-complex or better books, coding correctly, trying to make sure that they work on the majority (not even ALL) devices, readers and apps...it's not easy to run a business and stay on top of the "everything is changing" dynamic. To Pop-up or not to pop-up, that is the question....
Hitch