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Ciro Soto wrote:
Hello,
I need two more twiks for my footnotes: I am using asterisk instead of numbers or letter for the footnotes.
Twik 1: My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the last word in the sentence. Example: Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf} will print an asterisk touching the V letter. How do I instruct context to give me some room between the V and the asterisk?
Second twik: How to control the distance between the page text and the rule line that separates the footnote and the page text? I tried the "distance=", th e "height=" arguments in the setupfootnotes, but they don't do what I want. thank you
patch in core-not: \unprotect \def\dolastnotesymbol {\removeunwantedspaces \doifitalicelse\/\donothing % Charles IV \footnote{the fourth} \ifdim\lastkern=\notesignal \dodonotesymbol{\kern\noteparameter\c!distance}% gets the font right, hack ! \fi \nobreak \doifelse{\noteparameter\c!interaction}\v!no {\dodonotesymbol{\lastnotenumber\domovednote\v!previouspage\v!nextpage}% \ifconditional\pagewisenotes \rawreference\s!fnt{\s!fnt:f:\internalfootreference}{}% \fi} {\gotobox {\dodonotesymbol{\lastnotenumber\domovednote\v!previouspage\v!nextpage}}% [\s!fnt:t:\internalfootreference]% \rawreference\s!fnt{\s!fnt:f:\internalfootreference}{}}% \globallet\lastnotesymbol\relax} \protect \starttext \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 1] {Charles IV \footnote{oeps}} {\sl Charles IV \footnote{oeps}} {\bs Charles IV \footnote{oeps}} \stoptext -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------