At 02:40 AM 9/4/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
5.) In LaTeX, there's a means to place a footnote (and generate a number and reference for the footnote) without typesetting the number in the text, in order to handle cases where the "real" footnote mechanism breaks down. Is it possible to do this in ConTeXt?
Does \footnote[-]{An unnumbered note} do what you want?
Not quite, as it doesn't generate a number I can reference. What I'm thinking of is something that does what \nomarkfootnote does in the following example: A sentence\footnote{With a note\note[footB].}.\nomarkfootnote[footB]{And another.} should create the same output as nesting the footnotes: A sentence\footnote{With a note\footnote[footB]{And another.}.}. That is, \nomarkfootnote[ref] produces the same footnote as \footnote[ref], complete with an automatically-generated number that can be recalled with \note[ref] or the like. The only difference is that, like \footnote[-], it doesn't put anything in the running text. What this is useful for is for placing footnotes "in" things where one normally can't place footnotes, by only putting the \note part there, and the \nomarkfootnote in a convenient piece of nearby text. This would provide a way of solving the footnotes-in-footnotes-in...in-footnotes problem, and also might be useful in some cases with figures and tables and other floats. - Brooks