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And there's one other thing I maybe should have made clearer at the start.
I'm not writing, or formatting-from-scratch, an ebook of my own. The project I'm working on involves converting a 260,000-word history book (with around 500 endnotes) from a pdf scan. Obviously, this involves lots of copy-editing, removal of page-headers, etc. But my instructions include reproducing the notes in the form they appear in in the original book - so, no highlighting of words in the text: just the note cue itself. The whole process involves a detour through Word, which is where I've done all the editing/proofing.
I completely get what you mean when you say it's "not a Calibre problem", and obviously the developer has no obligation to incorporate the functionality I sorely need. But, to this normie (at least in the specific area of ebook arcana), it seems very peculiar indeed to suggest that, rather than implementing a solution resembling that included in WordToEpub, I should be going through the whole book to format each note manually, which means many hours of extra work and the almost-certainty of introducing new errors. It's much more convenient for me, and I imagine many others in a similar situation, to rely on the numbering (sometimes re-numbering) of footnotes that is one of Word's simple virtues in this area. So, it still seems very strange to me that it's not possible to "bank" all the work I've done in Word and simply export into epub.
Needless to say, this isn't a shortcoming that's in any way exclusive to Calibre!
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