is there a way to influence the linespacing of the footnote block? I'd like to typeset it in 9pt/11pt while the main text is set to 12pt/ 14.5pt (using an OpenType font) ... Any help highly appreciated!
If you just want a smaller font size
\setupnotedefinition [footnote] [style=small]
or if you also want to set interline space
\setupnotedefinition [footnote] [before={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]\setupinterlinespace}, after{\endgraf}]
You can also pass parameters to \setupinterlinespace to get the precise spacing that you want.
Thanks for your quick reply, Aditya. I'm afraid this doesn't quite work as expected ... the line spacing isn't changed at all here :- ( This is my setup: \setupnote [footnote] [before=, % remove blank line before % bodyfont=9pt, command=, % this disables the superscript n=0] % footnote block as a single paragraph \setupnotedefinition [footnote] [location=serried, before={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=11pt]}, after={\endgraf}, distance=1ex, headstyle=\ss\bf] Also I'm somewhat puzzled ... why put these before and after commands in \setupnotedefinition rather than \setupnote? As far as I can tell \setupnote already has a bodyfont option (but none for the line spacing) ... also I always thought that \setupnotedefinition refers to a description and controls the way a single footnote is typeset while \setupnote is supposed to influence the whole block ... On top of that does the \endgraf command conflict with the n=0 option in \setupnote? Oliver