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Originally Posted by davidfor
The question is what actually happens when you try to use the footnote? Is it ignored? Does it go somewhere else? What are you expecting to happen?
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Nothing happens. I had expected the focus to go to the specific footnote that I had placed at the end of the chapter.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
If you are using epubs, tapping the footnote link can be hard. This will always be the size of the link. If the footnote link is a single superscript character, try increasing the font size and seeing if you can tap that. When the footnote link does work, it will always navigate to the destination. Epubs do not use a popup for footnotes.
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I did think it might be that I was not actually clicking on the footnote character. I edited one of them to increase it's size, but still no luck. So far I have not managed to get a link to work on the Kobo. I did read that a long press was needed to get them to work, but again no luck getting it to work.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
With kepubs, tapping the footnote link is easier. The renderer uses a larger size than the link. With kepubs, you can get a popup for the footnote. But, to a certain extent, the renderer is taking a guess about whether the link is for a footnote or is a link for navigation. Things can be done with the links to improve this.
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I have yet to try a kepub. I installed the add-on for Calibre that allows you to save the book as a kepub, so I will give that a try later.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Unfortunately, comparing what happens to other readers/apps is not always useful. Some, such as the calibre reader, are very forgiving for the code in books. Where as the RMSDK based ereader Kobo uses for epubs is very unforgiving. And the rules used to decide if a link is a footnote is different for each reader/app. Seeing the book will help. If it is something we can look at, then post a link to it, or if it is legal to attach the book, do so.
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Which is why I used ADE to check. I read somewhere that ADE was the least forgiving when it came to sticking to the rules. As I said previously, the links to the footnotes work as expected in ADE.
Sorry, I can't attach the book as it's copyrighted. I will extract a section with a footnote link and post it here.