Re: [NTG-context] margin notes (was: lmtx update)

1 Aug 2020

      Hi Hraban,

Thank you for taking the time to send your code for sidenotes.
Unfortunately when I add

\starttext
test\footnote{A footnote in the margin.}
\stoptext

to your code, I get an error and unfortunately with recent versions of LMTX the error message 
!  Undefined control sequence
is not helpful to find the error… (LMTX considers \footnote as an undefined control sequence…).

Best regards: Otared
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On 1 Aug 2020, at 19:19, Henning Hraban Ramm  wrote:
...
Am 01.08.2020 um 18:57 schrieb Otared Kavian :
Hi Hraban,
Thank you for reminding me of the solution cooked up by Wolfgang for you a few years ago. That solution works fine when the notes are short enough, but in some cases the notes in the margin bump into each other (indeed it is not a good habit to have long notes, but in some cases one cannot avoid them).
One essential bit is missing in the wiki example:
\setupmargindata[inmargin][
 location=right,
 stack=continue, % !!
 align=flushright,
]
The code I’m actually using for our German literature magazine “Kritische Ausgabe” is much more elaborated, but also cluttered with obsolete stuff – I need to sort that out some time...
(I only deleted some styling.)
%%% Footnotes / Marginals
\setupmargindata[inmargin][
 location=right,
 stack=continue,
 align=flushright,
]
\setupmargindata[inouter][
 location=right,
 stack=continue,
 align=flushright,
]
\def\FNVOffset{0} % Negative vertical offset of footnotes in lines
% Manual tweaking was necessary for a while, when stacking didn’t work reliably.
\def\MarginNote#1{%
\inmargin[
 voffset=\dimexpr-\FNVOffset\lineheight\relax,
 width=\ColWidth,
 align=flushleft,
]{%
 \inframed[
   width=\ColWidth,
   align=right,
   frame=off,
   offset=overlay,
   strut=yes,
   ]{#1}%
 }%
}
\define\PlaceFootnote{%
\inmargin[
 voffset=\dimexpr-\FNVOffset\lineheight\relax,
 width=\ColWidth,
]{%
 \vtop{\placelocalnotes[footnote][before=,after=]}}%
}
\def\FNo#1{{#1~}}
% I never managed to get number and text in consecutive lines without indented text
% or at least a constant whitespace after the number.
\setupnote[footnote][
 location=text,
 bodyfont=,
 indenting=no,
 before={\noindentation},
 next=\PlaceFootnote,
]
\setupnotation[footnote][
  way=bychapter,
  align=flushleft,
 indenting=no,
 location=serried,
 alternative=serried,
 width=broad,
 numbercommand=\FNo,
] % footnote text
\setuptexttexts[margin][][%
 {\framed[
   align={flushright,bottom},
   frame=off,
   height=\textheight,
   width=\ColWidth,
 ]{%
   \strut\vfill\placenotes[footnote]}}%
]
Best, Hraban
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