Reply To: Plain text book endnotes to dynamic endnotes in epub (CS5.5 PC)

Not a power user here, but a couple of ideas —

If you export from InDesign to .epub, the footnote markers should come in “live” and work in both directions (from main text to note and back to main text). Depending on the e-reader, sometimes you get back to the main text by clicking on the note number, and sometimes you get back by clicking on the back arrow, so try both before you decide that your current notes aren't functioning.

You can hand-code the hyperlinks but to me that seems like a lot of work and really easy to screw up. But if you want to try it, a good way to see what the code is is to take an .epub file in which the footnotes are functioning well, and open it in Sigil (or a similar program) and look at the code.

Footnotes are the main reason I use InDesign to make an epub. For a simple (aka boring ;) document, sometimes that's all I use InDesign for — feed it a Word document with live footnotes and ask it to spit out an .epub. Good luck!