In a scholarly book that has many footnotes, it would be very useful to go have an easy way to navigate from one footnote to another. For example, if a footnote says "Ibid., 203", you need to go to the previous footnote to see the bibliographic information on the book or article that "Ibid." references.
There are several ways that I could imagine navigating between footnotes (or endnotes):
- Is there a way to go to the next or previous footnote when you are viewing a footnote?I would suggest that the up and down arrows on the resource toolbar could serve for this. (Perhaps add an option for Footnote to the existing options of Article, Page and Annotation.)
- Is there a way to jump to a specific footnote number as you can with a word processor?
- Is there a way to view all of the footnotes in a chapter or book at one time, as you might with endnotes? This could be implemented as a visual filter, where the main text would be deselected and the footnotes would be selected. Alternatively, these could be displayed in a toggleable ribbon, much like the interlinear ribbon.
Of these 3 methods, the first one is the most important. If this is not already implemented, I would like to make the suggestion that it be. As Logos has more and more standard reference books, journals and scholarly monographs, it is important to make doing research in them no less easy than with a printed book.
