Question about x-ray...

mratteberry · 01-13-2018, 11:19 PM

So I'm writing a fantasy novel with lots of names. I want to be able to highlight names while reading in the kindle and have a quote (first mention of the character or location) pop up as a definition. I have the X-ray plugin but cannot get the thing to work - I assume because my book isn't on Goodreads. I'm not comfortable with adding my book to Goodreads just yet, but I feel like there should be an easier way to link names of characters and places to a glossary at the back of the novel after the ToC in calibre or something like that. Any help is greatly appreciated!

kovidgoyal · 01-13-2018, 11:29 PM

Just use a normal footnote link. You can use search and replace to insert it for all occurences of a name.

mratteberry · 01-13-2018, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Just use a normal footnote link. You can use search and replace to insert it for all occurences of a name.

Thank you for your quick reply! Could you tell me how exactly to add a footnote link?

kovidgoyal · 01-14-2018, 12:51 AM

A footnote link is just a normal link that links to your footnote page. If you are creating EPUBs you can add extra markup to idicate it should open up a popup. Kindles dont have that facility, instead amazon uses some heuristics to decide which links to open as popups. Ask in the kindle forum for more details.

01-13-2018, 11:19 PM	#1
mratteberry Fire Breather Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Kindle PW	Question about x-ray... So I'm writing a fantasy novel with lots of names. I want to be able to highlight names while reading in the kindle and have a quote (first mention of the character or location) pop up as a definition. I have the X-ray plugin but cannot get the thing to work - I assume because my book isn't on Goodreads. I'm not comfortable with adding my book to Goodreads just yet, but I feel like there should be an easier way to link names of characters and places to a glossary at the back of the novel after the ToC in calibre or something like that. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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01-13-2018, 11:29 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,355 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Just use a normal footnote link. You can use search and replace to insert it for all occurences of a name.

01-14-2018, 12:51 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,355 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	A footnote link is just a normal link that links to your footnote page. If you are creating EPUBs you can add extra markup to idicate it should open up a popup. Kindles dont have that facility, instead amazon uses some heuristics to decide which links to open as popups. Ask in the kindle forum for more details.

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