Hi All,
I hope this is the right thread to pose the following question:
I'm trying to convert an ebook on a website where a book's footnotes already "pop-up" in a new window. I'd like to have the main text of the book not interrupted with those numerous footnotes (which would be the case were I to attempt to convert the "printed" version of the page to epub) with the latter being available by clicking on their corresponding number (doesn't matter if they "pop-up" or not).
The website in question is a great one:
UC Press e-books collection, where 700 of them are accessible by the public.
The book in question is
The Fabrication of Labor by R. Biernacki.
The main text is supplied with numerous footnotes. Now, to avoid having the footnotes displayed under each page (as is the case under "Print View") I make the Firefox "Show Only" the right frame under normal view, save the page as such (Web page, complete) and add the html file to Sigil.
The footnotes in Sigil are linked to like this:
<sup class="ref">[<a href="javascript://" onclick="javascript:window.open('https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8g5008n9&doc.view=popup&chunk .id=d0e2555','popup','width=300,height=300,resizab le=yes,scrollbars=yes')">1</a>]</sup>
In the resulting epub file, clicking on footnotes leads nowhere.
Is there anything one can do to properly transfer the links to the footnotes as well?
If there is, I hope one can do the same for the other publicly available books on this site as well since their current format doesn't seem optimal (for me) to read or annotate them.
Many thanks...