So how do you do footnotes with iBooks Author?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2.8 GHz Four-core i7, 16GB RAM
It does not appear that automatic footnoting is supported as far as I can tell. It is, however, possible to add hyperlinks to different parts of the book, so if you put a link in the text that goes to your footnote explanation that would do what you want, right?
Best of luck.
Tried using hyperlinks to bookmarks but it's a clumsy hack at best from what I can tell.
First, of all, when you create the hyperlink to a bookmark, it forces the font to become red and you lose the superscript of the footnote number.
Second, you can only have one bookmark per page. So the hyperlink can't take you right to the footnote.
Third, I don't know if it's for the reader to jump back from the booknote/footnote to where they were reading before.
Nysus, can you tell mw how you managed to make a bookmark?
the + button (for add bookmark) is greyed out no matter what text I select
I don't know what + button you are referring to. I am adding it with "Insert -> Hyperlink" in the menu.
I think we need to keep raising this issue. In almost every regard this new tool is a very attractive one for me to use for writing a text book for an undergraduate readership - much more so than using the normal publishers who are incapable of handling colour, let alone interactivity. . But the inability to do easy footnotes or endnotes, or compile an automatic bibliography, makes me think this is not designed for the academic market at all. Pity.
And yet if you open "Paragraph Styles" one of the possibilities is "footnote text" -- weird. One temporary work-around is to use endnotes, copy those to the end of your document from the original, make sure each note is separated by a para break, and then select all and apply "Numbered List" from List Styles -- but this is clunky and inelegant, and looks it....
I agree. I pushed it hard last night with a smaple chapter from my latest book; all worked fine until I searched for the footnotes. The links were completely dead. My 11 year old is already being asked to list sources for his essays, so I would expect to be able to give proper references.
Sorry 'sample'. I need a copy editor to look good, too...
No importing of footnotes - even those created in Pages?
That is really, really incredible. Having used Pages to write a 100+ page manuscript complete with footnotes, I'm now unable to simple import this work into another Apple software product that is supposed to have acedemic value?
Wow.
I fully agree. The lack of footnotes/endnotes is a serious flaw, redeemed (maybe) by the fact that Apple's current focus is on K-12 education. And given that books with footnotes/endnotes tend to have hundreds of them, this feature needs to be automated, importing already existing notes from Pages, Word or (best of all) Scrivener.
Has anyone seen if the glossary function could be kludged into a clumsy sort of endnoting? It wouldn't be perfect and it'd kill the use of the glossary as a glossay, but it'd least put the notes somewhere else but still easily accessible. You might have as glossary terms something like Endnote-001, Endnote-002 and so forth. Not good, but probably still better than anything you could do for a Kindle.
It'd also be great if the iBooks Author team discovered Markup text and the app knew how to convert Markup text to the basic paragraph and text styles of a book. # Chapter Title would become the title of a chapter and *italics* would be italicized. That'd remove the need to write in something like big and bloated like Word. It'd make it easy to do the writing on an iPad, where there are some excellent Markup apps.
--Michael W. Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien
I just tried importing a Word 2011 document with footnotes. It kept the superscripts but appears to have deleted the footnotes themselves. Has anyone tried a Pages document with footnotes. Do we know that doesn't work?
No, that doesn't work either - the superscripts remain but th enotes themselves disappear....
I'mbypassingthe problem of lackof footnotesusingthe tool "Glossary"(my"iBookAuthor"is inPortuguese,I do not knowif this is thecorrect name).
I createaglossaryterm inwhich the definitionis thefootnote.
Select the wordor phrasethat will be theindicator of thefootnote and, withthe toolbar glossaryopen,selectthe 'definition' in the menu"IndexLinkto:" and thenI click"addlink"(allin the sametoolbar).
Hovering thecursor over theselected location,it willswitch toawhite hand.Clicking this, thewindowwill change tothe definition(footnote).To return tothe text, just clickthe button"<<",located at the farright of thetoolbarglossary.
I hope I havehelpedalittle.
Of course that will also make flash cards of your footnotes and mix them with the user notes. Not ideal.
No. Idid a test.Not the samething.
"Flashcards"isonething,"glossary"is something else.
The"Flashcards"are created by thereader asglossary termsby the authorof the book.
It's different.
I agree thatis not ideal, at leastastraditionalfootnotesthat we areaccustomed.
In theiPad,when we touchon the wordor textwith a link tothe glossary,opensaballoon withthe definitionin it.
Footnotes?
