melmothx
commented
7 months ago ienzo @.***> writes:
Some people submit articles that have links in it but looks awkward in the PDF for printing. It will look like this:
See this link here for more.
Such text usually comes from blog posts and/or online articles which were meant to be read online, not to be printed.
That’s how it will look like when you print it. It’s awkward and weird. A reader of a zine would be like “what link??” I propose a tritary footnote system only visible on PDFs to accommodate these links. It would look like:
See this link here* for more.
Why PDFs only? Because EPUBs and the normal web view can support hyperlinks.
What stops you or your submitter to make the link explicit with a real footnote?
I would accept a patch to the preprocessor to turn such links into explict ones.
https://github.com/melmothx/text-amuse-preprocessor
Honestly I don't like the idea of adding (after more of a decade) a feature without a clear gain and without a clear motivation, beside the laziness of the editor.
Even the secondary footnotes are less robust then it's desired, go figure a third set.
-- Marco
ienzo
Some people submit articles that have links in it but looks awkward in the PDF for printing. It will look like this:
That’s how it will look like when you print it. It’s awkward and weird. A reader of a zine would be like “what link??” I propose a tritary footnote system only visible on PDFs to accommodate these links. It would look like:
Why PDFs only? Because EPUBs and the normal web view can support hyperlinks.