diff --git a/src/imxml2epub.py b/src/imxml2epub.py
index 9bb8e4e..d4d4197 100755
--- a/src/imxml2epub.py
+++ b/src/imxml2epub.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
-# Time-stamp: <2020-05-27 09:09:09 (kthoden)>
+# Time-stamp: <2020-05-27 11:07:24 (kthoden)>
 
 """ Convert a customized DocBook XML file into a set of files that
 constitute the contents of an EPUB file.
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
 
 for xmlChapter in xmlChapters:
     groupings = libeoaconvert.get_bigfoot_data(xmlChapter)
-    xmlFootnotes = list(xmlChapter.findall(".//note"))
+    xmlFootnotes = xmlChapter.xpath(".//note[not(ancestor::opener)]")
     logging.info("Here come the footnotes. Found " + str(len(xmlFootnotes)))
     has_old = 0 != len(xmlFootnotes)
     has_new = 0 != len(
diff --git a/src/tei2imxml.py b/src/tei2imxml.py
index 04940be..5fd4672 100755
--- a/src/tei2imxml.py
+++ b/src/tei2imxml.py
@@ -754,6 +754,12 @@ def handle_refs_default(ref):
                     hilayer = ref.get("select")
                     logging.debug(f"Found hyperimage annotation layer {hilayer}")
                     ref_subelement.set("data-hilayer", hilayer)
+            elif type_attribute == "page":
+                ref.tag = "EOApageref"
+                del ref.attrib["type"]
+                del ref.attrib["target"]
+                etree.SubElement(ref, "ref", teitarget=target_attribute)
+                etree.SubElement(ref, "Label").text = target_attribute[1:]
             else:
                 ref.tag = "EOAref"
                 del ref.attrib["target"]