three questions on footnotes
Hi, as beautiful footnote placement is one of the most brilliant features in TeX I were happy if these three detail questions could also be answered with ConTeXt. Hans, do you have some time left to have a look, please? As always, thank you very much, Steffen -> 1. headcommand How do I use this new command for moving my footnotemarker? I found only "location=top" showing a result and that was quite stupid ... \setupfootnotedefinition[location=command,headcommand=\llap] -> 2. footnotes (short: behind, long: below)? Is there a predefined command for placing short footnotes at the bottom of each page but horizontally continuos? Is saw this way of typesetting footnotes in a book I've read. It looks likes this: body text body text body text body text body bo- dy text body text body. ------ 1 short 2 short 3 short 4 short 5 but hey: the long note starts in a new line! I have never seen footnotes like this before. But it reads very pleasant: This way you don't have lot of empty white space (because of short notes), and it still is very clear (for the long footnote starts on a new line). Is it possible to typeset this in ConTeXt? -> 3. Footnotes in margin? Hans once posted the code listed below. But the result on longer footnotes were halfempty (body text) pages. Is there a bug fix, a work around?
does ConTeXt provide a way to place footnote (not margin notes!) per page - but not below the body text? A suitable place could be the margin. But there is no "\setupfootnotes[location=inmargin]" and somthing like "\inmargin{\footnote{}The footnote's text.}" doesn't flow.
Does anybody know a working solution?
Idris should know since i made him definable footnotes -)
\showframe
\definenote[mynote][way=bypage,location=text,width=\marginwidth,rule=,before=]
\setuplayout[backspace=5cm,margin=3cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle]
\setuptexttexts [margin] [\vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill}] []
\starttext
test \mynote{one} test \mynote{two} \page test \mynote{one} test \mynote{two} \page test \mynote{one} test \mynote{two} \page test \mynote{one} test \mynote{two} \page
\stoptext
or a bit more modern (structured, readable, replacable):
\setuptexttexts [margin] [\setups{flushmynotes}] []
\startsetups flushmynotes
\vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill}
\stopsetups
Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
-> 1. headcommand
How do I use this new command for moving my footnotemarker? I found only "location=top" showing a result and that was quite stupid ...
\setupfootnotedefinition[location=command,headcommand=\llap]
as the name suggests, it uses the definition/descriotion environment, so you can use the same configuration options as there; the mentioned location=command gives you the possibility to hook in your own commands \def\MyMove#1{\inframed{#1}} headcommand=\MyMove
-> 2. footnotes (short: behind, long: below)?
Is there a predefined command for placing short footnotes at the bottom of each page but horizontally continuos?
Is saw this way of typesetting footnotes in a book I've read. It looks likes this:
body text body text body text body text body bo- dy text body text body. ------ 1 short 2 short 3 short 4 short 5 but hey: the long note starts in a new line!
I have never seen footnotes like this before. But it reads very pleasant: This way you don't have lot of empty white space (because of short notes), and it still is very clear (for the long footnote starts on a new line).
Is it possible to typeset this in ConTeXt?
not currently; one complication is that footnotes are collected and so the first one is already on a line of it's own when the seconds enters the game; technically it's possible to implement something that does that by lying to tex about dimensions and such; however, this will not be that robust because tex has to be able to break between note 1 and 2 if needed
-> 3. Footnotes in margin?
Hans once posted the code listed below. But the result on longer footnotes were halfempty (body text) pages. Is there a bug fix, a work around?
hm, i need to add an option for that, will do Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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