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Old 10-05-2022, 04:20 AM   #4
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Thank you, guys, for your inputs. Indeed, there are no epub:type="footnote" (or should I use "endnote" instead? does it matter?). That may explain why some of the footnotes (they're all collected at the end of the book in one html file, so they're endnotes, aren't they?) don't pop-up.
As for the other stuff - that's somewhat disappointing.

As promised, I attached a couple of screenshots demonstrating how bad plain-text footnotes pop-ups can turn out to be.

Now I wonder how best to fix this pop-up inconsistency. Here's the html snippet for the footnote in the screenshots, for example:

Code:
<a id="ich03fn1" class="calibre7"></a><a class="calibre7" href="part0078.html#ch03fn1"><span class="super"><sup class="calibre10">1</sup></span></a>
Where should I insert that epub:type="endnote" thingy? like so?

Code:
<a id="ich03fn1" class="calibre7"></a><a class="calibre7" href="part0078.html#ch03fn1"><span epub:type="endnote" class="super"><sup class="calibre10">1</sup></span></a>
Is there anything else I should add elsewhere? Should I add epub:type="endnotes" to the html where all the endnotes are? Not sure where, like so?

Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb">

<head>
  <title>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheet.css"/>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../page_styles.css"/>
</head>

<body epub:type="endnotes" id="2ACBS0-520bab1f111e4f78ab5684198175d09c" class="calibre" >

  <h2 class="h" id="calibre_pb_0"><a id="foot" class="calibre3"></a><a class="calibre3" href="part0003.html#foot">Notes</a></h2>

  <h3 class="h2">1 The library at Hurtfew</h3>

  <p class="footnote"><a id="ch01fn1" class="calibre7"></a><a class="calibre7" href="part0006.html#ich01fn1">1</a> <em class="calibre2">The History and Practice of English Magic</em>, by Jonathan Strange, vol. I, chap. 2, pub. John Murray, London, 1816.</p>
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