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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
No there is no fix for this. Remember that in ebooks the actual number used is not important since your readers will read footnotes by tapping the footnote link not scrolling to a list of foootnotes and looking up a number.
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Thanks for this, Kovid.
I should have explained that I'm working on a book that was published way back in the analogue era, and it contains quite a few cross-references to notes in other chapters ("See Chapter 8, note 37", or whatever). I realise that this could be worked around by rephrasing/editing each of those cross-refs, but that's not what the publisher, or the author, wants. And I should mention, as someone who works regularly on profesionally published nonfiction, that this is a formulation ("See Chapter X, note Y") that's still widely used in freshly published books.
I guess I need some kind of conversion tool that meets paper/analogue publishing standards and traditions at least half-way, and Calibre isn't it (though it's enormously useful to me in all kinds of other ways!).