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Originally Posted by jhowell
That doesn’t work. It has to be a visible character or it is removed.
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I don't have a recent (post-2015!) Kindle so I cannot test this on a current device, but the workaround I've used before in both straight-HTML (web page) applications and epubs is to define a one-point-line-height style and set the font color equal to the background. That "fools" the parser — that is definitely a "displaying" element between the <br/>s! — and it's easy to make into a simple cut-and-paste.
Here's one way to implement it, in HTML/epub code intended as input (and it also makes epubs work, since "number of paragraphs" can create problems):
<br/><span class="fnnewpar">.</span><br/>
and, in the stylesheet:
.fnnewpar {font-size: 1pt; line-height: 1pt; color: white}
One could also code this inline if there are only a few footnotes in the book, leaving the stylesheet alone:
<br/><span style="font-size: 1pt; line-height: 1pt; color: white">.</span><br/>
but that is a little more prone to errors and typos, and harder to deal with when proofreading.
Both methods work on a variety of .epub readers. So, over to you Kindle users for field testing...