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Endnotes, footnotes in ePub books
I read many books in ePub format which have endnotes or footnotes.
In most cases these references are displayed as small superscript numbers in the form of indices. To "hit" them with the fingertips is usually very difficult. If they are close to the function zones of the eReader on the page edges, it is often not possible to jump to the texts.
However, I have also been able to read books in which the word preceding the jump mark (index) was in a different font style and usually additionally underlined. This makes jumping to the reference much easier.
I would therefore like to see a tool which:
- extends the jump marks in the ePub books by the word(s) preceding it, and marks it with its own text style.
- It should be possible to set a minimum number of characters (e.g. 8) for the jump mark.
- If this style can be defined by the user in the tool settings (size [+/-%], bold, italic, underline/overline, color [16 shades of gray]), this would be a further improvement and simplification.
- A preceding WYSIWYG representation would also help a lot.
The style change should also be able to be made for the return marker of the actual endnote. Since this usually consists of only a few characters, a suffix such as "Number " or "No. etc. " could be prefixed.
If it were then also possible to restore the original state of the ePub, the tool would be perfect.
It seems important to me that the resizing of the font is only ever relative to the size defined in the ePub format, to accommodate the different display sizes of users when reading.
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