All notes of ebook mistakenly link to the book's title page. What's best way to fix?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by thymesnewroman

Hi BetterRed.

Thanks for your reply.
After turning on Function Mode, what do I type in the Search Field and the Replace field?

After familiarising yourself with the doco, press the Create/edit button, then write some python. In essence the function you write does the Replace.

Post any queries in the Calibre Editor forum, that guarantees Kovid will see them.

BTW: you can use the calibre book editor stand-alone, no need to use it from the library manager.

BR

[thymesnewroman]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Thanks for the attachment.

I say go full nuclear. Wipe out all the crap links, substitute with good ones.

(I tested this on your "index_split_006.xhtml" and it worked perfectly on all footnotes in that chapter.)

Hi Tex,
Thank you for you easy-to-follow instructions. I did as you suggested and now the links work! Wow. Amazing.

I was just wondering about something. In other ebooks, when I tap on the number in the body of the text, The note pops up. Is there a quick way to modify our coding so that, rather than jumping to the notes section, I would see, for example, just footnote 15 in a pop-up box when I tap on the number 15 in the main body of the book?

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by thymesnewroman

I was just wondering about something. In other ebooks, when I tap on the number in the body of the text, The note pops up.

Which program/app are you using to read?

Usually "popup footnotes" are an EPUB3 thing. And this is EPUB2.

Originally Posted by thymesnewroman

Is there a quick way to modify our coding so that, rather than jumping to the notes section, I would see, for example, just footnote 15 in a pop-up box when I tap on the number 15 in the main body of the book?

No, not that easily...

Originally Posted by thymesnewroman

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

No, not that easily...

Actually, I lied.

If you're using Calibre to read this book, one of its heuristics looks for "superscript numbers" linking to each other.

Use this Regex:

Search: (<a href="#f[tn]\d+" id="f[tn]\d+">)(\[\d+\])</a>
Replace: \1^\2</a>

this will change my [1] link into a superscript ^[1].

Then Calibre's reader will enable the footnote popups.

[thymesnewroman]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Which program/app are you using to read?

I do most reading on the Kobo Forma.


I use Calibre's reader to read PDFs (because it's so slow on my Forma) or ePubs with lots of pictures (so I can appreciate the images in their color)

[thymesnewroman]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Actually, I lied.

If you're using Calibre to read this book, one of its heuristics looks for "superscript numbers" linking to each other.

Use this Regex:

Search: (<a href="#f[tn]\d+" id="f[tn]\d+">)(\[\d+\])</a>
Replace: \1^\2</a>

this will change my [1] link into a superscript ^[1].

Then Calibre's reader will enable the footnote popups.

I plan to do this Regex Search-and-replace and see if it will make my Forma do pop-ups.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by thymesnewroman

I plan to do this Regex Search-and-replace and see if it will make my Forma do pop-ups.

Don't think so.

If I remember correctly, to get popups on Kobos, you need it in KEPUB format + use EPUB3 footnote code.

That would require more complicated markup...

[thymesnewroman]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Don't think so.

If I remember correctly, to get popups on Kobos, you need it in KEPUB format + use EPUB3 footnote code.

That would require more complicated markup...

Just to let you know, I have a Calibre plugin that automatically converts my epub's into kepubs when I send the books to my device.
But that still leaves the ”epub3 footnote code” issue.

I'll be happy with the code you've kindly shared.

[ps67]

You can read the Kobo EPUB Guidelines, this is the part of footnotes:

https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spe...kobo-platforms