Thread: Pop-up footnotes
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Old 01-13-2017, 07:06 PM   #42
davidfor
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Originally Posted by pluma View Post
hallo,

I just tried this and it works nicely, but a couple of questions.

This method doesn't use the official epub 3.0 footnote specification. Is there a particular reason why NOT to use the official xml footnote entity?? What are the differences?
From memory, it does support the epub 3.0 footnote specs. I have a sample book that works, but I'm not sure if it it uses the complete definition.

For links without the epub 3 specs, it uses other rules to achieve something close. There are other threads discussing this. The latest was from October when something changed.
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The second problemo is that the pop up footnote kills all html/css formating and displays text as a 'run on' sentence!!

In order to force some sort of formatting I even tried an svg image with text embedded and here ignores the formatting as well!!

The formatting that I am trying to show isn't really difficult, it's a list, is it really impossible to show a list in the footnotes?

I've noticed that after a certain amount of words it creates another line. As a workaround I was planning to use nbsp in order to force it to display the way I want it.
Yes, all formatting is stripped from the footnote when displayed. And a limited amount of text is displayed. The dialog title is "Footnote preview". With that title, the intention is to let you peek at it and go to the full note if needed. That makes it a design decision from Kobo. If you don't like it, you need to talk to Kobo to convince them it is wrong and change it.
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