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1.6 Footnotes and endnotes

LearnPress version: 1.5

Last modified: 17 April 2007

About page notes

Page notes — endnotes or footnotes — are not entered directly into a page record in LearnPress but stored in separate records which are attached to the referring page. Special markup is inserted into the body text of a page in order to reference the note.

When LearnPress displays the page, it searches the body text for note references, then identifies the referenced notes. If both reference and note are found, the references are automatically numbered and turned into specially formatted links to the note, and the note is formatted and displayed at the bottom of the page. This means that you do not need to keep track of note numbering in pages.

Creating and inserting page notes

To create a footnote

1. Go to the Notes section of the page editing form and click Create new note.
2. If the note refers to a work whose record you have already created, select it from the menu, then type the page range(s) in the Pages field. Separate individual pages or ranges with commas, and express page ranges with a hyphen, e.g. 34-38. Do not include “p.” or “pp.”
3. Type the text of the footnote in the Text field. (This is optional if you referred to a work with an existing bibliographical record.
4. Save the note record. You will be returned to the page you were editing.

To insert a footnote reference

1. In the Notes section of the page form, find the note whose reference you wish to insert and copy the text of its reference from the field provided.
2. Paste this reference in the location in the body text of the page where you wish it to appear. Do not edit it in any way.

Keep in mind!

• You can only reference a page note from the page from which you created it.
• You can reference the same note more than once from the same page.
• You can only reference a page note from the body text field, not from the sidebar or footer.

Formatting of page notes

Page notes are formatted automatically for ease of use and accessibility. Each note and note reference has a distinct URI, and notes and note references are linked directly to one another.

The note reference looks like this:

<sup class="footnote"><a rel="footnote" id="noteref1" href="#note1">1</a></sup>

The <sup> tag semantically implies either a note reference or an exponent. The rel attribute says that this link goes to a footnote. The link then points directly to the specific note referenced, not merely to the top of a list of notes.

After the note, a link is provided to return to the text. This link points to the id of the note reference above.

In this system, someone using a screen reader or audio browser can read through the text of the page, hear the footnote, then return to the flow of the text without interruption or extra navigation.