How to convert end-notes to foot-notes

jjk · 05-07-2024, 01:43 AM

Hi all

Do you know a rather simple way to convert endnotes to footnotes ?
I have an epub with several hundred of notes, all grouped in one html file. When I read that book on Kindle or Kobo, accessing to notes is very slow, probably because all notes are in a single file.
So I would like to move notes at the end of chapters.
Any idea ?
TIA

BetterRed · 05-07-2024, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjk

Hi all

Do you know a rather simple way to convert endnotes to footnotes ?
I have an epub with several hundred of notes, all grouped in one html file. When I read that book on Kindle or Kobo, accessing to notes is very slow, probably because all notes are in a single file.
So I would like to move notes at the end of chapters.
Any idea ?
TIA

Sigil has some footnote related plugins see ==>> Sigil Plugin Index

BR

capink · 05-07-2024, 03:08 AM

Why do you need them to be at the end of the chapters? You can split each note into its own file and keep them at end of the book. I've seen this in a number of books. To do this:

Open the file that contains the notes.
Right click > Split at multiple locations. You need to enter regex that splits between notes.

If you need help with the regex, you can post a sample of an endnote here.

DNSB · 05-07-2024, 08:25 PM

The last ebook I edited which had multiple footnotes in one file, I ending up splitting the file into 5 chunks with ~50 footnotes in each to reduce the size of the individual files without giving each footnote it's individual file.

Since I did this as a manual process, I opened the original file, divided the line count by 5, went to the 80% mark, pasted a Sigil split marker ( <hr class="sigilChapterBreak" /> ), went to 60%, 40% and 20% and repeated the paste. I then did hit f6 to do a split on markers and it was done. The only issue I ran into was that while this looked good with pop-up footnotes, for non-pop-up footnotes, I ended up copying 6 or 7 footnotes so they were 1-to-1 and not the original many-to-1.

jjk · 05-08-2024, 03:58 PM

Tank you for your quick answers.
I hadn't thought of splitting up the very large endnotes file. So that's what I did, then replaced the fragments at the end of the relevant files. And Calibre recalculated the links all by itself. It's magical.
Thanks again

05-07-2024, 01:43 AM	#1
jjk Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Paris (France) Device: Kobo Kindle Vivlio-Inkpad3	How to convert end-notes to foot-notes Hi all Do you know a rather simple way to convert endnotes to footnotes ? I have an epub with several hundred of notes, all grouped in one html file. When I read that book on Kindle or Kobo, accessing to notes is very slow, probably because all notes are in a single file. So I would like to move notes at the end of chapters. Any idea ? TIA

05-07-2024, 03:08 AM	#3
capink Wizard Posts: 1,106 Karma: 1954138 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kindle	Why do you need them to be at the end of the chapters? You can split each note into its own file and keep them at end of the book. I've seen this in a number of books. To do this: Open the file that contains the notes. Right click > Split at multiple locations. You need to enter regex that splits between notes. If you need help with the regex, you can post a sample of an endnote here.

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 36,126 Karma: 145735366 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	The last ebook I edited which had multiple footnotes in one file, I ending up splitting the file into 5 chunks with ~50 footnotes in each to reduce the size of the individual files without giving each footnote it's individual file. Since I did this as a manual process, I opened the original file, divided the line count by 5, went to the 80% mark, pasted a Sigil split marker ( <hr class="sigilChapterBreak" /> ), went to 60%, 40% and 20% and repeated the paste. I then did hit f6 to do a split on markers and it was done. The only issue I ran into was that while this looked good with pop-up footnotes, for non-pop-up footnotes, I ended up copying 6 or 7 footnotes so they were 1-to-1 and not the original many-to-1.

05-08-2024, 03:58 PM	#5
jjk Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Paris (France) Device: Kobo Kindle Vivlio-Inkpad3	Tank you for your quick answers. I hadn't thought of splitting up the very large endnotes file. So that's what I did, then replaced the fragments at the end of the relevant files. And Calibre recalculated the links all by itself. It's magical. Thanks again