[Plugin] FootnoteLinker Sigil plugin - Page 4

Leonatus · 02-22-2022, 03:17 AM

I`d just like to forward an experience that I just have made: While tapping on the footnote in the text on my Kobo (with Kepub format), there appears a pop-up with the adequate note and back. But trying the same on my Tolino, tapping on the footnote in the text opens the whole HTML-page with the Endnotes. I can jump back to the text, that's not the problem. It's only strange that the tap does not specify the exact footnote.
No problem, I only want you to know.

davidfor · 02-22-2022, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Leonatus

I`d just like to forward an experience that I just have made: While tapping on the footnote in the text on my Kobo (with Kepub format), there appears a pop-up with the adequate note and back. But trying the same on my Tolino, tapping on the footnote in the text opens the whole HTML-page with the Endnotes. I can jump back to the text, that's not the problem. It's only strange that the tap does not specify the exact footnote.
No problem, I only want you to know.

That is the behaviour of the renderer on the device. If you loaded the book on the Kobo as an epub, it would behave the same. That is because the Adobe RMSDK that Kobo and tolino use for epubs has no support for footnotes. It is just a link.

But, the renderer that Kobo uses for kepubs takes a guess. Based on the relative location of the source and the destination, the size of the destination and some other things, it can decide the link is a footnote and display the text that is at the destination in the popup. It is not perfect. If the book is an epub3 and the footnotes are done with the appropriate semantic, it is more accurate. I don't know if this plugin does that.

Leonatus · 02-22-2022, 05:32 AM

@davidfor: thank you for clarifying this! I shall do some testing on it.

Leonatus · 02-22-2022, 05:51 AM

I realized that a simple epub2 to epub3 conversion in Calibre doesn't change the behaviour in this point. But I also read elsewhere that, if one wants to benefit of the epub3 features concerning footnotes, there were deeper going measures necessary. Bur I don't know how to do.

davidfor · 02-22-2022, 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leonatus

I realized that a simple epub2 to epub3 conversion in Calibre doesn't change the behaviour in this point. But I also read elsewhere that, if one wants to benefit of the epub3 features concerning footnotes, there were deeper going measures necessary. Bur I don't know how to do.

Some discussion of what is needed took place in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=345268. It has some links that might help. And I'm sure it has been discussed in detail in the epub forum here.

Leonatus · 02-22-2022, 07:11 AM

Ah, yes, of course!

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02-22-2022, 03:17 AM	#46
Leonatus Wizard Posts: 1,023 Karma: 10963125 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Guben, Brandenburg, Germany Device: Kobo Clara 2E, Tolino Shine 3	I`d just like to forward an experience that I just have made: While tapping on the footnote in the text on my Kobo (with Kepub format), there appears a pop-up with the adequate note and back. But trying the same on my Tolino, tapping on the footnote in the text opens the whole HTML-page with the Endnotes. I can jump back to the text, that's not the problem. It's only strange that the tap does not specify the exact footnote. No problem, I only want you to know.

02-22-2022, 05:32 AM	#48
Leonatus Wizard Posts: 1,023 Karma: 10963125 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Guben, Brandenburg, Germany Device: Kobo Clara 2E, Tolino Shine 3	@davidfor: thank you for clarifying this! I shall do some testing on it.

02-22-2022, 05:51 AM	#49
Leonatus Wizard Posts: 1,023 Karma: 10963125 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Guben, Brandenburg, Germany Device: Kobo Clara 2E, Tolino Shine 3	I realized that a simple epub2 to epub3 conversion in Calibre doesn't change the behaviour in this point. But I also read elsewhere that, if one wants to benefit of the epub3 features concerning footnotes, there were deeper going measures necessary. Bur I don't know how to do.

02-22-2022, 07:11 AM	#51
Leonatus Wizard Posts: 1,023 Karma: 10963125 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Guben, Brandenburg, Germany Device: Kobo Clara 2E, Tolino Shine 3	Ah, yes, of course!