endnotes/footnotes issue

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endnotes/footnotes issue

spajak opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

On my Clara HD reader (latest soft), links to notes don't work:

I have a reference:

<a epub:type="noteref" href="przypisy.xhtml#endnote-8-1" class="noteref">*1</a>

And a note in przypisy.xhtml:

<aside epub:type="endnote" id="endnote-8-1">*1. Francisco López de Gómara, Cortés: The Life of the Conqueror by His Secretary, przeł. i oprac. Lesley Byrd Simpson, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1964, s. 8.</aside>

Issue: Touching/clicking anchor link does nothing on my ereader.

Wendy Reid · Answer 1 · Mon Sep 23 2019 23:03:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @spajak!

Please check the section here on footnotes and endnotes: https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec#footnotesendnotes-are-fully-supported-across-kobo-platforms

I don't believe we're supporting epub:type="noteref" but I can run a test to double check that. If you change noteref to footnote or endnote it should work.

Sebastian Pająk · Answer 2 · Tue Sep 24 2019 06:45:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see. I was thinking noteref is an anchor and foot(end)note is the content of a note..
According to 3.2 spec:

noteref - a reference to a note, typically appearing as a superscripted number or symbol in the main body of text.

And only <span> is allowed, and not <a>?

Wendy Reid · Answer 3 · Tue Sep 24 2019 21:43:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No the element itself should not matter, that was just for the purposes of illustrating the example.

Wendy Reid · Answer 4 · Tue Sep 24 2019 22:09:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you retest the file on the device by changing the extension to [file].kepub.epub?

https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec#sideloading-for-testing-purposes

Sebastian Pająk · Answer 5 · Wed Sep 25 2019 00:11:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeap. foot(end)notes are working now. But other thinks are broken.. See #46

Robert Riemann · Answer 6 · Mon Jun 22 2020 01:00:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you please clarify: noterefis generally not supported, but works on iOS devices (#8)?

The problem is that pandoc generates all epub3 files with noteref references in the next.

Wendy Reid · Answer 7 · Tue Jun 23 2020 02:25:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@rriemann For all endnotes/footnotes? If you could provide an example we can test it, but otherwise the recommendation in the document still stands.

I would also advise even if something is supported on one platform, it's best to have a solution that's cross-platform.

Robert Riemann · Answer 8 · Tue Jun 23 2020 05:10:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

OK for testing.

So I translated with pandoc the following text:

---
title: Test Title
author: Test Author
date: 22 June 2020
---

Here is some text. [^1] Here is again much more text with some extra footnote. [^2]

[^1]: Footnote 1
[^2]: Footnote 2

epub3: test-epub3.zip
epub2: test-epub2.zip

pandoc 2.9.2.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.20, texmath 0.12.0.1, skylighting 0.8.3.2