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.

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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 ----- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.