pop-up endnotes

[roger64]

Hi

@Kovid Goyal

Congratulations for implementing so nicely the pop-up feature for the 2.9. viewer. It's working very well. I hope we'll see it soon in our readers too...



You wrote that it's an "EPUB3 footnote markup": could you please give a reference link for this markup?

[kovidgoyal]

Here's a simple write up:

http://www.heliconbooks.com/article/epubfootnote

But you dont need to use EPUB 3 markup. You can just make your link a superscript or subscript and the viewer will consider it a popup automatically.

For endnotes you can also use the following markup (no need to use superscripts/subscripts)

In the main text (text.html)

<a href="somefile.html#whatever" id="an_endnote">See this</a>

And make sure that somefile.html links back like this

<a href="text.html#an_endnote">back to main text</a>

The viewer will automatically consider this pair of links to be an endnote. The hrefs, ids and link text in the above can be anything. The important thing is to have a link going to a another file, and that other file must link back to the original file.

[roger64]

Thank you for your explanations.

[eschwartz]

on the footnotes feature. Also, maybe the various device manufacturers could take a leaf out of your book?

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

on the footnotes feature. Also, maybe the various device manufacturers could take a leaf out of your book?

If device manufacturers were smart enough to do that, I doubt there would have been a need to write calibre in the first place

[nqk]

Dear kovidgoyal,

Viewer (2.9) doesn't popup the following footnote. It always works with Moon+ Reader, though. Do I need to turn on any setting?

<a href="#n1" epub:type="noteref"><span class="calibre4">[1]</span></a>

and

<aside id="n1" epub:type="footnote">

    <p class="textnote">(1):  tháng giêng</p>

  </aside>

[kovidgoyal]

You need to post a complete file demonstrating your problem.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

If device manufacturers were smart enough to do that, I doubt there would have been a need to write calibre in the first place

True, but as they say Hope Springs Eternal.

[nqk]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You need to post a complete file demonstrating your problem.

Please take a look at the file
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...20-%20vie.epub

[kovidgoyal]

Which footnote is causing the problem? I tried clicking (8) and (9) and they both worked. See screenshot.

[BetterRed]

Kovid - fresh install of 2.9 portable with default settings

The EPUB from nqk doesn't work for me either, I get taken to end of chapter when I click ref number, e.g. 8 or 9. I see no footnotes panel. And the viewer is not 'remembering' the window size, but it is 'remembering' text/background colour changes

It's hasn't worked in the installed version on my books, but I've been assuming the links were badly formed. I've not followed it up is because the release notes said 'popups' and I hate popups - your screendhot shows a dockable (I think) panel which is exactly what I prefer

BR

[eschwartz]

Not working for me either.

Also, I got a weird error, running from source.

calibre, version 2.9.0
WARNING: Errors while adding: There were problems adding some files, click "Show details" for more information


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Failed to read metadata from the file(s):
	C:/Users/eschwartz/Downloads/Thay Thong Ngon (1926) - Ho Bieu Chanh - vie.epub
With error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\eschwartz\git\calibre\src\calibre\utils\ipc\pool.py", line 313, in worker_main
  File "C:\Users\eschwartz\git\calibre\src\calibre\ebooks\metadata\worker.py", line 58, in read_metadata
  File "C:\Users\eschwartz\git\calibre\src\calibre\ebooks\metadata\worker.py", line 38, in run_import_plugins
  File "C:\Users\eschwartz\git\calibre\src\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 158, in _run_filetype_plugins
  File "calibre_plugins.dedrm.__init__", line 77, in write
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

The book imports without any metadata.

I do not get that when reverting the source to tag v2.9.0.

Also, I noticed the windowname "libprs500" in the progressbar popup in Adding Duplicates.

[kovidgoyal]

It's likely a windows specific bug then, I'll take a look at it in a bit.

[kovidgoyal]

@eschwartz: The add books and save to disk code is undergoing an overhaul at the moment. It still needs to be tested and fixed on windows.

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...38af80d3ea5140