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Originally Posted by DNSB
Looking at the nearest thing I have to a decent reference on style (the Canadian Style)
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Everybody has his/her/its own standard. Old engineering saying (more popular as software has exploded): "Standards are great. You can't have enough of them"
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Given that footnotes do not exist as such in a ebook and are often collected in a single file as endnotes, I prefer to use unique superscripted numbers within square brackets just to make them larger and easier to touch and easier for me to locate when editing.
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I think the closest thing to footnotes in flowed text is the popup note ala Kindle. I really like it. Some may not.
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Of course, this runs into fun when a single endnote may be referenced from multiple locations and you do not have popups for the notes or a note links to another note.
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Yes, there does seem to be a tacit assumption that the relation between footnote references and footnotes, and between citations and sources cited, is 1-1. Not really unreasonable in the case of notes, though it's not hard to imagine wanting to refer to a note in more than one place. But in the case of citations, one might often (in various technical applications) want to cite a source in a number of places. So the link/display of the target in that case is trivial, but then how do you get back to the citing location (since there are multiple ones linking to the same target and parameter passing in HTML is ... er ... absent?)?
I scratched my head about this a couple of days ago and didn't see any posted solutions to it. So I'm not sure how others do it. But a solution using nested <div> elements with unique identifiers does solve it nicely. Naturally, having solved that problem, I then decided that I wouldn't use such links anyway.
But I was pleased to finally find something useful about <div>s
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