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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
No. Never use these.
See my responses in the 2016 thread: "font with full super/under script support?"
Depends. What's your use case?
If it's Footnotes, then it's better to use the basic bracketed form [##] instead:
Code:
<p>This is an example.<a href="#fn1" id="ft1">[1]</a></p>
[...]
<p class="footnote"><a href="#ft1" id="fn1">[1]</a> This is the footnote.</p>
Easier to click, easier to read. |
AMEN brother. I just went through
agonies with a customer. He'd created 3 different types of "notes." He had on-page footnotes (asterisms); he had end notes (numbered notes that elaborated on the content of the on-page footnotes and had author's thoughts about this or that) and then, he had source notes, sourcing the materials for each 'set' of notes.
I cannot tell you what we went through, with the eBooks. I had warned him that the superscripts were hard to tap. FIRST, he wanted them separated--so you'd have footnotes, and then end notes and then the (linked, mind you) author's notes/source notes. But no, when that came out, he didn't like it. It was too "hard" for the reader to have to click, go to the end notes list, read what he wanted and then click back. Then he agreed that the superscripted note numbers should be bracket-number-bracket, full sized. Hooray.
Then he decided that the so-called "endnotes" would be in numerical sequence, with the footnotes. So, we ended up with (you cannot make this s**t up):
[1]
2
[3]
4
5
...
with the non-bracketed so-called "end notes" smaller than the bracketed footnotes. He seemed to think that the reader was going to "infer" that they were meant to read the bracketed content, but only read the non-bracketed content when the book was finished. (Before you ask, no, there was no disclaimer, no nuthin' about this).
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...
then, when he got the ePUB, and put it into KP3, he was unhappy that the bracketed notes popped up in the on-page popups, but the non-bracketed didn't. (Same identical coding, btw. No idea why some did and some didn't.)
I finally gave up. Like, 60+ emails about this topic. When he was unhappy about which notes did and didn't, popup, I sort of lost my s**t. I said "I warned you and I can't tell you what will happen until the book is actually published," (because Amazon is not forthcoming on why certain HTML works for footnotes and why some doesn't.)
Honestly. I really wish that people would just get their heads out of their asses and do normal, tappable footnotes. I read on devices *all the time* and I do not want to need a stylus, to tap a footnote. Hell, I'd say make it bold and large and bracketed, myself.
Did anybody here read that Churchill book with the
DISASTROUS footnote/endnote debacle? The Kindle or ePUB version? This one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079R3VH13 Oh-em-gee, what an
abortion that thing was. 1100 pages and IDK how many foot/endnotes.
Hitch