[gryzor2327]

Hi,

I am quite new into the business of producing ebooks, so I apologize in advance if my questions are going to be obvious or naive.

I have a history of producing PDF books, from latex. If that matters, I produce books in french, which are translations of brilliant volumes written in english in the past. My production is licensed under by-nc-sa (non-commercial) and my production is available for free.

I generate pdf with "pdflatex".
Now I have started focusing on generating ebooks (.ebook and .mobi). As I already have a number of source documents in latex, I am keeping this (and scripting where needed) so that the same source produces both pdf and ebook formats.

I have been using pandoc to generate .epub files. And I use calibre's "ebook-convert" utility to produce .mobi from the .epub I have.

I must say the general quality of the production is "good enough' from my profane eyes. But there are things I do not understand, and now here are my questions.

- When I open a epub book I have generated (with pandoc, based on latex source) with calibre, the rendering is just excellent. For instance, clicking a footnote opens a kind of popup, the footnote text ends with a "back link" to go back to where I was before following the footnote link. Also, I see no weird page numbers in the output.

- On the opposite, when I open the very same epub book I have generated with my mobile device (this is Kobo Aura), the rendering is not that excellent. It is generally good, I can scroll, etc. But following a footnote just drives me to its text, without a backlink. Also, some page numbers appear which seem to be fixed.

I don't undertand why the rendering is so different between calibre and the device itself. I don't know where to start in order to enhance the rendering on mobile device.

Any help about this would be greatly appreciated.
Hope this thread makes sense on this forum.

To be concrete, I am attaching an ebook from my production, which produces such effects.

Thanks,

Vincent