05-19-2020, 01:11 PM | #1 |
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EPUB to DOCX with footnotes
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Hello, I have an epub file which I want to convert to docx. The footnotes are hyperlinks in the epub file. Is there a way to convert the file with properly converted footnotes for MS Word? |
05-19-2020, 09:28 PM | #2 |
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No, I'm afraid not.
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05-20-2020, 05:40 AM | #3 |
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Try converting the ePub to HTML and load the HTML into Word and see how that works.
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11-19-2020, 05:52 AM | #4 |
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Wait?!
this is my first time getting stuck with the same problem...is there really no way to tell calibre when converting epub to docx to make proper footnotes/endnotes rather then hyperlinked text? I would think this was 1990 type of problem. |
11-19-2020, 06:22 AM | #5 |
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Invent a time machine, go back to 1990 and solve it then.
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11-19-2020, 09:31 AM | #6 |
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no need for sarcasm...this wasn't a rant against what you've built...calibre does a great job converting between so many different formats. I'm just puzzled when I encounter something which looks like a problem someone surely encountered before (even before calibre was around, I would think).
Anyways...knowing that I don't know how to fix it but also that it's not easy fixable is good enough for me at this point. tnx Kovid for all your work. |
11-19-2020, 09:49 AM | #7 |
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How could converting epub to docx be a 1990 type of problem when neither epub nor docx existed in 1990?
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11-19-2020, 03:23 PM | #8 | |
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My bad if I oversimplified the whole issue. For some reason, I was sure conversion of text with notes would be more simple. I've heard there were Macro solutions, but the 2 I tried didn't really work. |
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11-19-2020, 07:26 PM | #9 |
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Ebooks dont have the concept of pages, a hyperlinked footnote is really an endnote. Additionally, footnotes in ebooks are just links, and not always well encapsulated/defined. Automated translation of such endnotes to footnotes, is technically possible, but not really trivial. I dont feel like doing the work for it, but patches are most welcome.
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