If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think.

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In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.

\def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}

\starttext

\input tufte

\FancyBreak

\input tufte

\stoptext

I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me.

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Thanks, Wolfgang, for your help with the emoticons—they work now.

\useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf]

\def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[frowny]}}

Also, thanks for the \simplealignedbox, which works very well in my table of contents (although I have to put a \par at the end of it or it stays on one line and goes off the page). I don't understand why, but Tex didn't like having a \par inside the type of definition you used, but it allowed the following:

\def\SectionListEntry#1#2#3%

{

\noindent

\simplealignedbox{left}{2cm}{#2}%

\simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}%

\simplealignedbox{right}{3cm}{#3}%

\par

}

(I have a few issues with my table of contents, but these are now less specific to \placelist, so I'm including them in a different posting.)

Thanks again for all the help,

Scott