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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Hmmm, and don't popup footnotes have other issues as well, like some CSS formatting getting stripped, not displaying images, etc.
I forget what the heck I was testing lately (maybe it was my Kobo Forma?) where the popup footnote was missing italics (since the book stupidly applied them via <span class="italic"> instead of <i>).
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That's been a problem with KDP footnotes, yes.
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Side Note: How are large popup footnotes handled on actual Kindles? Do they allow you to "page" through them? Or do they only display X amount of characters, and then you have to jump to the full footnote?
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No, you can't page through them on about 50% of devices, you have to click, jump to the note and then read it. And then, obviously, jump back.
Don't get me wrong, I like the popup footnotes, myself when reading, but they're not the solution to everything, and as we've discussed, the glossary/many-to-one problem isn't solved by them, either, unless you really want to code a bajillion duplicate (effectively) footnotes/endnotes and all those cursed backlinks individually.
And let's say you do--so that (my usual example) "Irish Setter" in the body of the book has those 10 backlinks; it looks crap in the book, never mind the endnotes. IDK, the many-to-one issue is always, IMHO, going to be problematic.
As Wombat says, nothing he does is going to be "right" for that situation in which he finds himself. (Other than talking the author out of that usage, that is.)
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