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Jellby · 09-03-2020, 12:10 PM

I was reading a book in a book with footnotes (or rather endnotes), and found the not too uncommon case of a footnote within a footnote... The book is coded by yours truly, and the structure is pretty simple:

text.xhtml:

Code:

<p>Lorem ipsum.<a class="call" href="footnotes.xhtml#n1>[1]</a></p>

footnotes.xhtml

Code:

<div class="footnote" id="n1">
<p>1 Footnote.<a class="call" href="#n2>[2]</a></p>
</div>

<div class="footnote" id="n2">
<p>2 Footnote.</p>
</div>

I have the "inline footnotes" tweaks enabled, and it looks pretty good for first-level footnotes, but I can't find any way to access the footnote in footnote, other than paging all the way to the end of the book and finding where the corresponding endnote sits (actually, footnote 2 appears as an inline footnote on the page for footnote 1, so that works). Touching the "[2]" link on the footnote achieves nothing but a page turn. If I disable the inline footnotes, I get a popup, where the touching the link is as useless as before.

Am I missing something? Is this worth reporting as an issue on GitHub?

PS. By the way, the footnote numbers are actually back-links to the main text... but touching them in the endnotes pages doesn't seem to work either. Maybe this is because they are very close to the margins, though.

09-03-2020, 12:10 PM	#1
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,550 Karma: 19500001 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Footnotes in footnotes I was reading a book in a book with footnotes (or rather endnotes), and found the not too uncommon case of a footnote within a footnote... The book is coded by yours truly, and the structure is pretty simple: text.xhtml: Code: <p>Lorem ipsum.<a class="call" href="footnotes.xhtml#n1>[1]</a></p> footnotes.xhtml Code: <div class="footnote" id="n1"> <p>1 Footnote.<a class="call" href="#n2>[2]</a></p> </div> <div class="footnote" id="n2"> <p>2 Footnote.</p> </div> I have the "inline footnotes" tweaks enabled, and it looks pretty good for first-level footnotes, but I can't find any way to access the footnote in footnote, other than paging all the way to the end of the book and finding where the corresponding endnote sits (actually, footnote 2 appears as an inline footnote on the page for footnote 1, so that works). Touching the "[2]" link on the footnote achieves nothing but a page turn. If I disable the inline footnotes, I get a popup, where the touching the link is as useless as before. Am I missing something? Is this worth reporting as an issue on GitHub? PS. By the way, the footnote numbers are actually back-links to the main text... but touching them in the endnotes pages doesn't seem to work either. Maybe this is because they are very close to the margins, though.