mickthompson
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Post by mickthompson on Mar 15, 2014 19:43:35 GMT -8
My non-fiction manuscript has nearly four hundred End Notes, linked from the text.
What I've read in the Smashwords Style Guide is that these don't always flow over properly in the conversion from Word to Epub and Mobi. Has anyone had any experience with End Notes?
I've noticed that Smashwords books don't appear to have End Notes, as if writers are avoiding them.
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Post by Ted on Mar 16, 2014 3:30:16 GMT -8
Endnotes and Footnotes work in ePub and Mobi. Some authors use them and some don't, and yes, sometimes flow doesn't convert properly from Word to ePub or Mobi. I prefer to create these links manually using Insert > Bookmark and Insert > Hyperlink. This would allow you greater control over the reference links directly in Word, but would also be quite tedious if you have a lot of endnotes. This method is tedious but allows best control of formatting. You wrote you have nearly four hundred End Notes linked from the text, so the hard part is already done. Final words: One thing to keep in mind is not all ebook reading devices and software support a back button. So it’s a good idea to include a return link to take the reader back to the exact place in the text the endnote is referenced by. Make the return link subtle but not something the reader will over look. You may want to just make the font smaller. Download Calibre and then convert your work to ePub and Mobi for a 'general' idea of how your formatting will appear in those two ebook formats before uploading your Word doc file to Smashwords. I say 'general' as it's been my experience different ebook devices sometimes display the same ebook differently. You should Validate your Calibre epub file to see if there are any issues before uploading the Word doc file. The Smashwords Style Guide has information on some common ePub Validation errors.
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chelsfield
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Post by chelsfield on Mar 17, 2014 5:53:54 GMT -8
If you are referring to bibliographic notes at the end of a work, I use them as most of what I am publishing so far is non-fiction.
At this point, I am simply listing at the end of the entire work for two reasons: I am concerned about how they would look across differing formats at the end of a page; and, I am reluctant to embed hypertext links within the text as I fear it would be difficult to detect dead links without having to hunt for them through the entire text. It seems easier to check dead links from one list, but that's just me.
As it stands, I have the full title/author and then the url. But that looks messy to me, so I might just go back in and create the hypertext links within the list, following Ted's instructions.
Hope this isn't difficult to follow....
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