Touch End notes and Kobo Touch

[AlexBell]

I've nearly finished an ebook for the MR library that has about 300 footnotes throughout the text. There is a link from each footnote in the text to a file containing the text for the endnote, and a reciprocal link back to the original text. The ebook contains three plays originally written in Greek about 2,500 years ago, so the footnotes are important to explain ambiguities and puns and so on.

The endnotes work perfectly well on my Sony, Apple, and Nexus 7; but they don't work at all on my old Kobo Touch. When a footnote is selected either nothing happens or there may be movement to somewhere quite unrelated.

Can anyone point me please to an ePub ebook with endnotes which do work on a Kobo touch? I could then try to reverse engineer it to see if I can make the same technique work for me.

[davidfor]

They are working here. I have just tested them with https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178155. The first footnote link at the end of the third paragraph in the "Preface to the First Edition".

The problem I always have with this is that the link is small. Sometimes I get lucky, but I usually have to increase the font size to make the link large enough for me to reliably tap.

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by davidfor

They are working here. I have just tested them with https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178155. The first footnote link at the end of the third paragraph in the "Preface to the First Edition".

The problem I always have with this is that the link is small. Sometimes I get lucky, but I usually have to increase the font size to make the link large enough for me to reliably tap.

Thanks, David. I have that ebook in my calibre library, so I'll load it on to my Kobo and see if I can make the end notes work. If they do work for me I'll look inside to see how Harry does it.

[Leonatus]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

When a footnote is selected either nothing happens or there may be movement to somewhere quite unrelated.

I have an old Kobo Touch, too. I just come from creating an ebook with endnotes, and I have been worrying about your problem as well. The book was written in Open Office, and I used Luke's add-in to create the ebook. the result is that the endnotes work fantastically: tapping on the endnote symbol, the device jumps to the endnote; there is at the end another symbol, and tapping on it, it jumps back to the text. Perhaps a suggestion for you to act with your ebook likewise.