Option of showing footnotes as boxes over the text

[Heitor]

Hi, Kris,

I'd like to make a suggestion for Marvin.

It works quite well with footnotes, but its usual behavior can get annoying when there a lot of them, like in nonfiction and academic writing, in which most footnotes are just the reference of the information just presented.

Because of this fact, I've come to really appreciate the way Moon+ Reader displays footnotes. First, it shows them in a box, over the text. If the reader prefers so, he can open it fully, what is useful in case of long footnotes or if one wants to highlight or copy the text.

In most cases, I just peek at the reference, and close the box quickly. In Moon+ Reader this is a no-brainer; but in Marvin the constant moves between the reading position and the footnotes can become annoying.

I've seen there was already some discussion on this, and I hope to stress this suggestion, that would greatly improve Marvin's usefulness in heavily footnoted books.

[kguil]

@Heitor - thanks a lot for your feedback. That's on my feature requests list. However note that for popup footnotes to work, the EPUB must support them too. So even if I did implement the functionality in Marvin, the book itself must have been created to allow for the footnotes to "pop up".

More info: http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/20...pub-3-and.html

[FredipusRex]

Kris - I think Moon+ does something a little different. It will use the EPUB3 extension if it's there but I think it also will use a heuristic on EPUB2 files.

If I had to guess, they probably look at links (a href=) and see if there is a link back within the same paragraph or div section of the linked text. If so, it assumes that's a footnote and displays the text (sans link) within a pop-up.

Seems like something that could be doable.

[kguil]

@FredipusRex - Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

[FredipusRex]

It's mostly guesswork but if I was coding it, it's what I would do. Good luck!