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kyriosity
Inspiring
November 9, 2017
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Footnotes + Endnotes in EPUB?

  • November 9, 2017
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Hurrah for the new ID endnotes feature! But what happens in EPUB exports when a book has both endnotes and footnotes? Is that doable? Or do I need to combine them into one set of notes? And if the latter, does it matter whether they're all endnotes or all footnotes?

Thanks!

~Valerie

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Correct answer kyriosity

Not yet. I was hoping to get some advice first. But since there doesn't appear to be any, I shall blaze my own trail and report back!


Welp, this project finally made its way back to the top of my to-do list, so I can now report back on how it worked. The footnotes work like footnotes should. The endnotes, alas, work like plain text -- the reference number is there, but it does not link to the note. So...bummer. Lotsa extra work needed to convert all ~600 of them back to footnotes.

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kyriosity
kyriosityAuthor
Inspiring
November 11, 2017

Bump. Anybody got anything on this?

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2017

It seems not to be something the regulars who visit here know about.

Did you try doing it?

kyriosity
kyriosityAuthor
Inspiring
November 13, 2017

Not yet. I was hoping to get some advice first. But since there doesn't appear to be any, I shall blaze my own trail and report back!

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 9, 2017

Are you asking about Reflowable EPUB or Fixed Layout EPUB? EPUB 2 or EPUB 3? The answers are probably different depending on which you're talking about?

kyriosity
kyriosityAuthor
Inspiring
November 9, 2017

Reflowable, EPUB 3. Thanks.