Hi guys,
Back after a few days off... wouah, with all the comments, where to start?
@Mattmc
Thanks for your detailed reading and your questions.
I must say that is was my first day with a kindle, so I really have to catch up with environment and file system (old, new, dual...).
Glad you enjoyed the files I posted, and I am impressed by your extensive testing program
Thanks a lot for telling me how it behaved. I am a bit disapointed to see that only PW2 worked. But of course, this is what I understood from kindle firmware update text: only latest one can display popup.
Mobi
I only have a Paperwhite from 2014, so this is the device. I guessed that there were two engines to display ebooks, depending on there extension / file format (exactly as on kobo with epub and kepub.epub, althought they are the same format, just changing the extension).
AZW3
I let calibre handle the conversion. The calibre editor can only work on the azw3 format and I didn't take a look at the footnote language used yet. (but soon
) I believe you are right about the
epub:type="noteref" which indeed is epub. It has only importance if you create first an epub and if you intend to let a tool convert it in a second phase. Of course, if you create it directly in kindlegen, it doesn't mean anyting. (Haven't used it yet, my todo list starts to get ful
)
About the back button.
Yes, I mean the software back button, after you click the "go to" in the footnote. I noticed that in one version of the files, it didn't go back to the beginning of the text, but instead, went back to the Home book list (out of the book then!). I found that strange.
@Doitsu
Hi,
Thank you for your comments, I am impatient to give a try to the file you sent
Footnote different behavior.
Interesting each tool affects the way things behave. Once again, we need to check the generated files to see how it is converted.
Right and left
I should have checked that more in Sigil, but maybe I was tired
I have downloaded a test file here, (maybe even yours...) but still have to make some more testing.
@All
Maybe we can come up with a nice recapitulating file about footnotes. A kind of sum up "You can try all combination here" stuff.
I believe footnotes to be very important as normal note displaying, but also for educational quiz ebooks, giving a bit of
interactivity on ereader.
Regards
François