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Quoth · 12-13-2019, 01:45 PM

Simple comment style for fiction instead of fiddly footnotes (which don't work on every ereader). The note example is right now, you may need to narrow the browser window.

[A few words of note]

More body text. The "note" style will use sans if body is serif, or vice versa. It will have no vertical margin before and a suitable increased vertical margin after so as it's obviously a comment the previous paragraph.

Actually LibreOffice Writer has a style a bit like this called Marginalia.

I know some books really need footnotes. See also The Penguin Guide to Punctuation", R. L. Trask, available free from the author. Chapter 10.

Amazingly some old ereaders don't support even internal links. Even on the newest ereaders the way footnotes work can vary and they are awkward. I think normal text, not a superscript, is needed or they can be too hard to "click".

12-13-2019, 01:45 PM	#22
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,446 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Simple comment style for fiction instead of fiddly footnotes (which don't work on every ereader). The note example is right now, you may need to narrow the browser window. [A few words of note] More body text. The "note" style will use sans if body is serif, or vice versa. It will have no vertical margin before and a suitable increased vertical margin after so as it's obviously a comment the previous paragraph. Actually LibreOffice Writer has a style a bit like this called Marginalia. I know some books really need footnotes. See also The Penguin Guide to Punctuation", R. L. Trask, available free from the author. Chapter 10. Amazingly some old ereaders don't support even internal links. Even on the newest ereaders the way footnotes work can vary and they are awkward. I think normal text, not a superscript, is needed or they can be too hard to "click".