On 03/09/2012 04:30 PM, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

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> Is it possible to place the ruby text in a margin?

No.

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> This would allow me to keep line spacing decently tight and also prevent > the reader from only reading the annotation.

This can be added but then you need a symbol (or something else) to see to which word the annotation refers.

I'm just thinking of annotating one or two words per line, which in an appropriately small font size could just be stacked at the end of the line in order of occurrence. Problems would only arise if one line contained 3 or more words to be annotated, and the next line also contained one...

Would this be possible to implement? Would this just be a \defineinright? \define[2]\Note {#1\inright[stack=yes,style=\txx]{#2}}

\starttext

text \Note{TEXT}{MARGIN} text \Note{TEXT}{MARGIN} text

\stoptext

Wolfgang

Thank you, always. At the moment, the baseline of the first line of the margin note aligns with the baseline of the main text line. Even in the general case, I think it would look better to have the top aligned. In the margin ruby, this presents a slight problem as a second ruby will now look as though it belongs to the next line. Is there a way to align the top of the lines, or is there a hack that just shifts a margin note by a few pts? (There is a "low" flag, but no high flag, I think...) Thank you. Severin