Kobo H2O - solution to footnotes

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Percivale

Is there any easy way to increase the font size? Why is it not practical?

You can set the font size while reading (tap the middle of the screen, tap the two A's icon and choose a font). You can adjust the font size to be comfortable for reading. At the size I use the footnote superscript number is to hard to press. To make it easy to press, I need to increase the size by about 10 levels. But, that isn't good for reading, so I then reduce the font size. All that takes time and probably means losing the exact place I am at.

I don't thin that is practical.

How do you change the footnote link to cover the word or phrase?

GeoffR's post covers that well. For a paper book, the superscript for a footnote makes some sense. For electronic reading, make the full text the footnote is for the link.

How to manually convert epubs to kepubs?

By "manually" I meant using calibre to do a conversion. Select the book, press the conversion button and set the options to produce a kepub. The converted file is added to the library and can be sent to the device. You will need to install an extra plugin or two for this to work.

I don't usually recommend this as I think using the KoboTouchExtended to do the conversion during the send is the better way for most people. But, using it usually means you read all books as kepubs. If you only want to read certain books as kepubs, such as those with lots of footnotes or images, then you can convert them manually and send the kepub version.

Will it be possible to remove the header in the kepub after conversion (Will the patch do it?)?

The pedant in me has to say: The header is not "in the kepub". The header and footer are part of the reader application.

As to removing it, the best way is the full screen reading mode that is built into the firmware. But, that is not officially supported by Kobo and has bugs when reading kepubs. Personally, I don't use it as I like the footer and don't mind the header. And as I tend to read epubs, I don't see the header that much. I don't patch the firmware as none of the changes they do bother me enough to do it.

[Percivale]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

I think the way to fix ePub footnote links has been discussed somewhere else, and I don't usually bother to fix the footnotes myself because at the font size I use I don't usually have a problem activating them, but roughly:

The sort of footnote style that usually gives problems is where a tiny superscript is used as the link. You can use a much larger area for the link without changing the appearance of the text by seperating the footnote link from the footnote decoration.

e.g. if the footnote is done something like:

a.footnote { text-decoration: underline; }

<p>... blah blah something<sup><a class="footnote" id="fn1" href="#note1">1</a></sup> blah blah ...</p>

Use something like this instead:

a.footnote-link { text-decoration: none; }
sup.footnote-decoration {text-decoration: underline; }

<p>... blah blah <a class="footnote-link" id="fn1" href="#note1">something<sup class="footnote-decoration">1</sup></a> blah blah ...</p>

Edit2: Or a simpler way, if you don't mind the whole word being decorated as a link:

a.footnote { text-decoration: underline; }

<p>... blah blah <a class="footnote" id="fn1" href="#note1">something<sup>1</sup></a> blah blah ...</p>

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Could ypu be so kind and guide me what I should do in this particular example?
I found this info in styles folder of the epub

.footnotes {
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid black;
color: gray;
display: block;
height: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0.5em;
text-align: left;
width: 30%

What changes should I implement to press the footnotes without hassle?
I will be very grateful.

[meeera]

There are various solutions as discussed above, but just to throw in a sideways quick n dirty kludge while figuring those out: you could also load your book on your phone, if you have one, and open it to the footnotes there.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Percivale

Could ypu be so kind and guide me what I should do in this particular example?
I found this info in styles folder of the epub

.footnotes {
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid black;
color: gray;
display: block;
height: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0.5em;
text-align: left;
width: 30%

What changes should I implement to press the footnotes without hassle?
I will be very grateful.

I'm not sure that's the footnote link style, it looks like the style for the footnote text itself. I'd need to see the part of the html where the link is, i.e. the <a href=...> tag, as well as whatever style is on the tag.

I don't think it is generally possible to fix the links just from the stylesheet though, you usually need to edit each individual html file where the links are located. (Although in some cases you could just increase the font used for the link from the stylesheet, which would help, but even then you probably need to see how the publisher has arranged the <a href=...> tags in the html file to know which selector to use.)

[GeoffR]

Another suggestion is to try using a stylus to tap the footnote link. I find a blunt toothpick works okay.

If you can get used to using the links as they are it will be much less work than editing every book. It might just take a bit of practice.

[Percivale]

I found something like this


<li class="epigraph" id="footnotes047-003"><a href="../Text/part0172.xhtml">Przyspiy</a></li>
</ol>
</li>

<body class="title-page">
<hr class="footnotes" />




<p class="calibre11"><sup class="calibre9"><a href="../Text/part0007.xhtml#fn-330" id="fn-b-330">1</a></sup>*Włodzimierz Kirchner (1875–1970) – ksiądz, artysta malarz, fotograf. Członek Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Higienicznego oraz Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Dobroczynności, autor licznych artykułów o*problematyce filantropijnej.</p>


Does it mean that all the footnotes (one by one) should be corrected separately?

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Percivale

<p class="calibre11"><sup class="calibre9"><a href="../Text/part0007.xhtml#fn-330" id="fn-b-330">1</a></sup>*Włodzimierz Kirchner (1875–1970) – ksiądz, artysta malarz, fotograf. Członek Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Higienicznego oraz Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Dobroczynności, autor licznych artykułów o*problematyce filantropijnej.</p>

I think that might be the footnote itself, with the back-link. You really need to look at the text where the forward-link to the footnote is. But since I can't read the language I am not sure. Anyway using the above as an example (which might be a back-link), you could change it to:

<p class="calibre11"><a href="../Text/part0007.xhtml#fn-330" id="fn-b-330"><sup class="calibre9">1</sup>*Włodzimierz</a> Kirchner (1875–1970) – ksiądz, artysta malarz, fotograf. Członek Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Higienicznego oraz Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Dobroczynności, autor licznych artykułów o*problematyce filantropijnej.</p>

Does it mean that all the footnotes (one by one) should be corrected separately?

If you want to use the method of extending the tap hotspot to the entire word, then yes. Although you might be able to do it with a regular expression search and replace if the publisher has been consistent wih how the links are set out.

Edit: If you are happy just to increase the size of the superscript then you might be able to come up with something workable just by editing the calibre9 style in the stylesheet.