Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele: 
> 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. 
> 
> ——— 
> 
> 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. 

\unprotect 

\def\????fb{@@@@fb} 

\getparameters 
[\????fb] 
[\c!spacebefore=, 
\c!spaceafter=] 

\def\fancybreakparameter#1% 

{\csname\????fb\ifcsname\????fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname} 

\def\setupfancybreak 
{\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak} 

\def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]% 
{\ifsecondargument 
\getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]% 
\else 
\getparameters[\????fb][#1]% 
\fi} 

\def\definefancybreak 
{\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak} 

\def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]% 
{\ifsecondargument 
\getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]% 
\fi 
\setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}} 

\def\dofancybreak#1% 
{\begingroup 
\edef\currentfancybreak{#1}% 
\everyvbox{\raggedcenter}% 
\dowithnextbox 
{\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]% 
\flushnextbox 
\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]% 
\endgroup} 
\normalvbox} 

\definefancybreak[fancybreak] 

\protect 

\starttext 
\input knuth 
\fancybreak{$* * *$} 
\input ward 
\stoptext 

Wolfgang 

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Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run, though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get 

! Argument of \fancybreakparameter has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
<to be read again> 
                   }
\edefconvertedargument #1#2->\edef #1{#2}
                                         \edef #1{\detokenize \@EA {#1}}
\docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1}
                                                  \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc...

\dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ]
                                                  \flushnextbox \blank [\fan...
l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$}
                         
? 
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
<to be read again> 
                   }
\edefconvertedargument #1#2->\edef #1{#2}
                                         \edef #1{\detokenize \@EA {#1}}
\docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1}
                                                  \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc...

\dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ]
                                                  \flushnextbox \blank [\fan...
l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$}


Thanks,

Scott
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