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Old 10-01-2020, 01:17 PM   #50
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Note that the <p>...</p> is one thing that will work as a note structure, but of course others will too -- including list elements <div> elements themselves, etc.
This turns out not to be true in general, and it appears to be wisest to use vanilla <div> structures to handle all the forward/backward linking. But I leave the details of exploring the various possibilities to others, although most here don't seem inclined to employ such a technique anyway.

I've edited the original posting to reflect this discovery.

So I think to sum up: This seems to work well for my purposes on the Kindle Previewer, and so I have some hope for it on various Kindle devices pending testing. Other people either THINK it won't work, or absolutely that it can't work, or maybe it might could work (Southern subjunctive), but they can't remember whether what they tried worked or didn't, or worked in some cases and not in others, or ... whatever.

So after being told it can't work, doesn't work, couldn't work, and shouldn't even be tried, and then providing free source code to y'all, I'm happy with the result that my amateur self has reached at this point for my own purposes, and I can't imagine what any additional "discussion" could amount to other than a repeat of all the speculation already seen. Being a pretty committed empiricist and pragmatist, I prefer to make things work if I can, and not speculate or opine where it doesn't matter. But I have benefited from some of the comments and observations here, and for that I'm grateful. And I do have to actually finish this book and not just talk about it.
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