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Originally Posted by colinsky
While it's quite an interesting debate as to how foot- and endnotes can best be utilized in ebooks, I'd also like to try to help the original poster. The initial issue raised is the following:
In the conversion from WORD to EPUB, the numbering option setting (number footnotes consecutively through the document vs. restart numbering for each section) is being ignored -- see attached.
OBSERVED BEHAVIOR: Regardless of the document setting, numbering proceeds consecutively through the entire book.
DESIRED BEHAVIOR: Numbering follows source document preference.
The poster also mentioned that the wordtoepub tool does preserve numbering preferences properly, which suggests that the relevant information is present in the source file.
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A thousand thank yous! This whole thread has spun away from my original point - which is partly my fault. But I'm still struggling with this very problem.
If anyone's interested, I've got as far as formatting the text in LibreOffice Writer, and making each chapter its own section - which has the equivalent effect of section-breaks with note numbering by chapter in Word. LO has its own native ePub export function, which I've tried, and which DOES preserve within-chapter note numbering. But (like WordToEpub), it messes up other formatting stuff, such as spacing and page-breaks before chapter headings.
Since I'm such a coding ignoramus, my next task is to fix those issues using Sigil with PageEdit integrated. Hoping I can get it done the WYSIWYG way, and not dabble in any code-editing. I'll keep y'all posted...