So, even though our books provide a read aloud in spoken English (audio) and a read aloud in ASL (video), its of the entire page's text. It is especially important since the grammar/structure of ASL & English are not identical.
I'd love to find a way for the child to click on a specific word / phrase and have them see a video of that specific word. Without the illustration they are missing out on the picture support early readers need.) Is there a way to do this? A separate page in a Glossary type feature will disrupt the reading process and the child looses the picture support. I'm hoping there is a way to use the pop-up with a photo or video? (We publish books in American Sign Language & English, it is very important for early Deaf readers to be able to see the sign for a particular word or phrase while seeing the illustration. What are you waiting for to start creating EPUB 3 ebooks? OK, there are now two desktop EPUB 3 readers, and iBooks and the iBookstore have officially announced support as well. and hinting that it existed so I could figure it out! I love, love, love that Apple totally followed the standard on this one: supporting symantically marked footnotes, and then "associating specialized behaviors" as the spec directs.
And thanks to Apple for adding this functionality. Thanks to Dave Cramer who coded the example (in January). You can view this particular pop-up footnote on the third page of the Moby Dick book, called "Original Transcriber's Notes" in the table of contents (preface_001.xhtml).
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Note that I completely disabled the CSS on this document, to be sure that the pop-up had nothing to do with any CSS effect.Īnd notice that the font in the pop-up changes to match the font chosen in the Font menu (here I've chosen Seravek):Īgain, you can download this and other EPUB 3 examples from the EPUB 3 Samples site and view it in iBooks 2.1.1 (from April!). Here it is in a horizontally-oriented iBooks: If you put your footnotes in, say, a div element, it would still pop-up when the link was pressed, but it would always be visible as a regular part of the text as well.Īnother thing that I noticed is that you can enclose your a element in sup elements so that your footnote markers are raised with respect to the surrounding text, but make sure it's outside the a element or else it will break your pop-up footnote. Note that the aside element, which is new to HTML5, is automatically hidden by iBooks. These have been corrected in this EPUB3 edition. The aside element must also have the epub:type="footnote" attribute/value pair to mark it as the footnote content as well as an id attribute that matches the value of the href attribute in your link. Next, create an aside element that contains the text that should appear in a pop-up display when the link is pressed. So, to make a pop-up footnote in EPUB 3 (which works in iBooks), you just have to create your footnote marker link as shown above, paying special care to include the epub:type="noteref" attribute/value pair. This snippet is from an EPUB 3 version of Moby Dick, coded by Dave Cramer.Īnd then the EPUB 3 spec goes on to say that a Reading System may associate specialized behaviors with that syntax, and it looks like Apple has associated the pop-up functionality to the combination of epub:type="noteref" and epub:type="footnote" attribute/value pairs.
In chapters 24, 89, and 90, we substituted a capital L for the symbol for the British pound, a unit of currency. The IDPF website explains the proper syntax for marking up footnotes semantically, that is, by labeling them as footnotes:
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The first part is true, and the second part is sort of true, but if you like, read on and I'll explain just how to do it. It also tantalizingly suggested that EPUB 3 supports pop-up footnotes and said you could find information in the EPUB 3 spec on the IDPF website. Apple sent around an email today announcing that EPUB 3 is now supported by iBooks and the iBookstore.