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Originally Posted by Quoth
You can't or shouldn't exactly duplicate how a paper book works as an ebook. It does links back and forth well. But you absolutely can't mimic the paper style of a source for a footnote. People need a larger area to tap on.
The ONLY sensible way to do it is how I suggest. I know it's more work, but it's far better quality, more reliable and safer to manually number.
Word (and InDesign) are designed for paper. Both predate ebooks (InDesign is ancient and kludged and may have bits of Pagemaker in it). Though ebooks are based on HTML and CSS, they certainly don't work the same way as web pages or web sites.
I've been creating content on computers since 1979 and used to teach this stuff. Do things to suit epub and get a Sage 8″ Kobo to proof on and copy back annotations to Calibre, then copy/paste to a text editor window beside Word or LO Writer.
It's then trivial to edit styles and page formats of a copy of Word/LO file to suit paper/POD/PDF. Working the other way (editing & styling for paper and trying to get an epub to work) is very very much harder.
It makes no difference that you are editing OCR from an old paper edition rather than writing from scratch. It just means the creative bit is replaced by proof comparison with the paper.
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Thanks again for the reply.
I should say that I simply disagree about the "larger area to tap on" thing. I have a vast collection of nonfiction ebooks (around 7,000), largely because of my work. I don't think any of them has more than just the footnote cue as tappable. And I get what you mean - occasionally I miss it. But generally I don't find it a problem. And, as I say, I have yet to come across a single example of a professionally produced nonfiction book that does what you suggest (i.e. also including the last word in the sentence, as well as the cue - if I understand you correctly?).
Also, the vast majority of the books I'm talking about have note sequences within chapters, rather than spanning the entire book (what I mean is: I don't recall a single case where the latter style is applied, though I'm sure they're out there). I guess that's one of the reasons why I assumed there must be a simple way to do that.
I'm afraid I don't fully understand what you mean here:
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... get a Sage 8″ Kobo to proof on and copy back annotations to Calibre, then copy/paste to a text editor window beside Word or LO Writer.
It's then trivial to edit styles and page formats of a copy of Word/LO file to suit paper/POD/PDF. Working the other way (editing & styling for paper and trying to get an epub to work) is very very much harder.
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For example, I don't see how annotations are relevant? I've already used Calibre to convert the pdf into docx, where I've done all the editing. Which might be slow or inefficient for some people, but it's what I'm most used to and (except on this one point!) works perfectly well. I have a Libra 2, which I believe has the same screen dimensions as the Sage, and the thing I mentioned above (just the note cue linked) works fine on that.
Again, though, thanks for your help.