Better equipped opentype fonts offer so called superior numbers as an opentype feature. Those are special smaller figures for “superscript” (opentype feature “sups”) that are not simply scaled down versions of the normal figures (be they oldstyle or lining) you are normally using. Scaling down is as far as I understood the default way context is using to generate the numbers for footnotes. Is there a way to define the use of unscaled superiors according to the fontsizes of body text and footnote text instead? Greetings Jörg PS: I am using for serif the “Linux Libertine O” family (installed as OTF and invoked by the included mkiv simplefont mechanism) which has the “sups” feature.

Thank you very much! I had not thought it was that easy! Jörg On 05.02.2015 13:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

\definefontfamily [mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O] \definefontfamily [mainface][mm][TeX Gyre Pagella Math]

\definefontfeature[f:sups][sups=yes]

\setupbodyfont[mainface]

\setupnote [footnote][textcommand=,textstyle=\addff{f:sups}] \setupnotation[footnote][numbercommand=,headstyle=\addff{f:sups}]

\starttext

\input knuth\footnote{Knuth sample text}

\input ward\footnote{Ward sample text}

\stoptext

Hello Hans, Those are nice self-explanatory commands which also mean I don’t have to define them myself. From my short opentype feature experience I would add the following combinations (defined names could be shortened, long names here only for better explanation): Tabular oldstyle numbers (oldstyle numbers aligning correctly in tables through fixed spacing): \definefontfeature[f:tabular_oldstyle][onum=yes,tnum=yes] \unexpanded\def\settaboldstyle{\doaddfeature{f:tabular_oldstyle}} \settaboldstyle Proportional oldstyle numbers (oldstyle numbers for in-text use spaced/kerned according to their forms): \definefontfeature[f:proportional_oldstyle][onum=yes,pnum=yes] \unexpanded\def\setpropoldstyle{\doaddfeature{f:proportional_oldstyle}} \setpropoldstyle Tabular lining numbers (lining numbers aligning correctly in tables through fixed spacing): \definefontfeature[f:tabular_lining][lnum=yes,tnum=yes] \unexpanded\def\settablining{\doaddfeature{f:tabular_lining}} \settablining Proportional lining numbers (lining numbers spaced/kerned according to their forms): \definefontfeature[f:proportional_lining][lnum=yes,pnum=yes] \unexpanded\def\setproplining{\doaddfeature{f:proportional_lining}} \setproplining plus Scientific inferiors (numbers for subscript, e.g. in chemical formulas): \definefontfeature[f:inferiors][sinf=yes] \unexpanded\def\setinferiors{\doaddfeature{f:inferiors}} \setinferiors Of course all this works only if the font offers the according opentype features. Greetings Jörg On 05.02.2015 23:46, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 2/5/2015 2:10 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:

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Thank you very much! I had not thought it was that easy!

Jörg

On 05.02.2015 13:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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\definefontfamily [mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O] \definefontfamily [mainface][mm][TeX Gyre Pagella Math]

\definefontfeature[f:sups][sups=yes]

\setupbodyfont[mainface]

\setupnote [footnote][textcommand=,textstyle=\addff{f:sups}] \setupnotation[footnote][numbercommand=,headstyle=\addff{f:sups}]

\starttext

\input knuth\footnote{Knuth sample text}

\input ward\footnote{Ward sample text}

\stoptext

i'll add:

\definefontfeature[f:superiors][sups=yes]

\unexpanded\def\setsuperiors{\doaddfeature{f:superiors}}

(we already have \setsmallcaps, \settabular and \setoldstyle)

Hans

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