I'm looking for the most effiecient way to link each endnote reference number in text chapters to the corresponding note in the endnote section at the end of the book. Currently, the note numbers in text, and the notes themselves are just plain text as imported from WORD. All epubs that I've looked at have the notes as dynamic. It is not clear how this is being done.
What I've tried: I downloaded and used the script end-to-end.jsx, then exported to epub. What I got was a note number in text with a blue underscore, that when clicked on, took me to that note. But not back from the note to the text (one way link). What step did I miss in making this work? Samples I'm comparing to have the link going both ways.
I also have read the posts about using the paragraph style to make the note text “numbered” like a list and then using that to link to the note number in the text to it. What I got: note numbers in the text disappeared when I selected it and created a hyperlink to the endnote. Also, when using the numbered option, all of the notes in the endnote section renumbered, so that chapter 2 notes started with the next note available after the notes in chapter 1 subhead. That won't work. Each section has to start agina with “1” after its respective subhead (Notes to chapter 1, Notes to chapter 2, etc). I also want this section to be part of the epub just as it is in the print, so I don't want to cut and paste the notes into the individual chapters where they are referenced.
I've just completed Anne-Marie's WONDERFUL lesson on exporting from CS5.5 to epub/Kindle, etc. but it didn't cover this topic. I'm now going through the lesson again, guess I'm a slow learner. I've been doing books in Indesign for about 3 years, I'm very comfortable with it, but I've never had to create hyperlinks or cross-references, and don't even know the difference between them truth be told. I would love to know which Lynda.com video would give me the background I'm missing on how these work, and how to apply that to the endnotes situation.
Other items not working correctly, my nav TOC is good, but the TOC I generated in the document (and threaded to text) is not dynamic once I export to epub. It is blue (except for the frontmatter titles in the section WITH the generated TOC), but clicking on any title takes you nowhere. The NAV TOC works like a charm, although it contains more frontmatter than I need. Probably that would be best handled by editing the epub itself (???) All of the book documents also are in the epub, so it is complete in that sense.
so much to learn . . . help!
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