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Originally Posted by MGA
I learned that it is a very good method to use Styles rather than making linebreaks and other formating manually when you are making an EPUB.
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No, it applies to ANY use of a wordprocessor. Direct formatting dates back to nearly 30 years ago.
Don't use Insert "End Notes" or "Insert Footnotes" at all. While it does work for paper/pdf output sometimes if you delete the [ref] in the text the actual note is deleted too.
Create an extra "chapter" after any chapter with note references for the notes, so that starts a new page and thus a separate HTML file in the epub.
Put a bookmark at the note and a bookmark at the reference, which should be like [2] not a small superscript
[2] . Add links. The source link should include the preceding words
as well as the [2] so it's easy for a finger tap. The note must be one paragraph and end with [Back], which is a link to the bookmark at the source reference.
Two references can't use the same note, or [Back] won't work. Repeat the note.
Putting notes as a sort of chapter after each chapter is so that people can read them if their ereader has no support for links. Only some readers do footnotes as popup, and only if one short paragraph.
If they are all scholarly references, then you can also put them in an appendix chapter called References with a sub-heading without page break (like level 3) so they are accessible in the System TOC.
In any ebook, footnotes are simply paragraphs with a bookmark linked to from the main text with a link back to the point in the main text. There is no concept of footnotes at bottom of a page, endnotes or headers or footers in ebooks, only paper and PDFs.
While it's possible to convert a docx made from an odt that has footnotes and endnotes my "manual" method 100% works and a copy of the LO Writer or MS Word doc is easily edited for paper or PDF /POD etc to be conventional footnotes and endnotes.
Don't try and slavishly copy how paper documents look. If you have been producing paper documents for years essentially using the wordprocessor as a glass typewriter, forget everything!
It's really hard to convert a document done for paper to ideal for ebooks, but trivial to take a WP file that translates well to ebook, to paper / PDF. For a start you can have a different set of styles with same names for paper/PDF as a template and load that with "overwrite" into a renamed copy of the file. That can even automatically headers and footers. Then you only need minimal editing.