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Old 05-20-2021, 02:15 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
I should have explained first my use case (which is generalized at least for French users). I use the sup tag for ordinals (like for XXe siècle, Ve armée) square or cubic roots (m3, km2), mathematical or chemical formulas, some titles and so on.]
Ahhh yes, I always forget that little superscript 'e' in French.

I'll have to add that to my notes.

Superior Letters is the term, and you can find more examples here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_letter

There's also the Ordinal Indicator (a little superscript 'a' or 'o' or '°' [degree sign] that used while marking first/second/third place):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
You know what, sweetie? I would rather buy the book for you and have YOU look and see, than to try to explain it. Seriously. Ping me and lemme know if you want it.
No need to waste money on such abominations. I'll acquire it elsewhere.

If you want to send me a DRM-free version for research purposes, I'd be open though.

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
There are more than 983 links back there, trust me. What's interesting is that this book, too, has footnotes and endnotes--and the latter are NOT linked. You click and guess what?
Am I seeing this correct?
  • 1 = Endnotes
  • fn1 = Footnotes

Within the text, they're superscripted. They're also jammed together, so if two notes are next to each other, you get:

1fn1



(Another reason why brackets are good in ebooks, then you'll see a more distinct "[1][fn1]".)

When you jump to the actual note chapters...

Endnotes are jammed into one enormous paragraph with a bunch of non-breaking spaces between. Something along these lines:

Code:
<p><a href=""><span class="bold">1</span></a><span class="bold">.</span> WSC, <span class="italic">Marl</span> I p. 33&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=""><span class="bold">2</span></a><span class="bold">.</span> James, ‘Churchill, the Man’ p. 5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=""><span class="bold">3</span></a> [...]
Why? Just why?

Footnotes, you get all of them wrapped in <blockquote> + centered... and similarly ugly code with millions of useless non-breaking spaces before/after numbers:

Code:
<blockquote><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup><small><a href=""><span>fn1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a></small></sup> So nicknamed because of his earliest courtesy title, the Earl of Sunderland, rather than because of his disposition.</span></blockquote>
At least it's not all in a single paragraph!

And this thing was published in 2018!!!

How does this abomination not have a KQN (Kindle Quality Notice)? That big, red banner should be scaring away buyers and knock some sense into whoever created that hideous thing.

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