Many thanks for the suggestion! But I’m trying to write a book, not hack code, so respectfully I’ll decline going down that path. May I humbly suggest that if the compiler ignores an option that it is supposed to respect, that is called a bug? At least, that’s what we called it in SW development (and I have implemented compilers). And a bug is something that a user would expect to be fixed eventually?
If you can give me a tested fix in some form to use termporarily while the bug is being fixed (as was done in Incorrect epub formatting of footnote in blockquote - #8 by Dain), I’ll gladly use it. Thanks in advance.