Hi Brooks, Brooks Moses wrote:
I've been updating the Footnotes page on the Wiki, and have a few questions as a result:
1.) Footnotes in footnotes in footnotes. Are these possible? When I do something like \footnote{A note\footnote{With a note\footnote{With a third footnote.}.}.}, only the first two notes are included in the footnote block, though the number for the third footnote is generated.
The wiki text was a bit too enthousiastic, I believe. From some experimentation, it appears that you can have * footnotes in footnotes, * other (user-defined) notes in footnotes, * notes in footnotes in footnotes, * footnotes in notes, * notes of different types inside eachother but not: * footnotes in footnotes in footnotes * notes in notes of the same type * footnotes in notes in notes
2.) Footnotes as marginals. There was text on the Wiki saying that it's possible to typeset footnotes as marginals, but I can't find any references to this in the ConTeXt manual. Am I missing something? I know it's possible to do marginal notes, but those don't get footnote numbers, and so aren't the same thing....
There is an example in core-not.tex, but it doesn't work :-( \definenote [mynote] [way=bypage,location=,width=\marginwidth,rule=,before=,factor=0] \setuplayout [backspace=5cm,margin=3cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle] \setuptexttexts[margin][\vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill}][] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{test \mynote{one one one one one one} \input zapf \mynote{one one one one one one} } \stoptext (nothing at all shows, see also the bug below, at point 7.)
3.) Footnotes placed without line breaks. If one does a number of short footnotes, they get set like so:
1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four
Is it possible to have them set without line breaks, like this? If so, how?
1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four
At least, you can do \setupfootnotes[n=4], that typesets in four columns. The actual footnotes are desciptions, perhaps these can be tricked in appearing in-line themselves?
4.) Footnote alignment. Currently, footnotes are set so that the left end of the text of the footnote is aligned with the left edge of the text, and the footnote number hangs out into the margin. Is it possible to change this? (For instance, suppose I would like the number aligned to the text-edge, and then a fixed-width space, and then the text?)
Use \setupfootnotedefinition[location=left] See \setupdescriptions for other possible options.
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?
7. What does the "location=high" in \setupfootnotes do?
This is supposed to be a baseline correction for the bottom of the page, I think. What it actually seems to do is make the footnote texts disappear, like in this example: \setupfootnotes[location=high] \starttext \dorecurse{4}{\input zapf \footnote{one one one one one one}\endgraf } \stoptext looks like a bug :-( Taco