Thanks, Peter. I like your last idea of tying the french punctuation and character spacing to \fr or \mainlanguage[fr].

Alan


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28 2013, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> ConTeXt resets a few features for the notes and you have to enable them for the notes block.
> Add the following lines to your document and it should work.
>
> \startsetups[footnote:french]
>   \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
> \stopsetups
>
> \setupnote[footnote][setups=footnote:french]

See also: http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=428#c1092

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