[NTG-context] inline footnotes

[Wolfgang Schuster]

> Am 30.01.2015 um 22:44 schrieb mf <massifr at fastwebnet.it>:
> 
>> Hi Massi,
>> 
>> Could you possibly provide a small pdf sample that illustrates exactly
>> what you are looking for? Thanks and 
>> 
>> Best wishes 
>> Idris
> 
> Thanks for your reply, Idris. Here's an example:
> 
> *** traditional (stacked) footnotes ***
> ***************************************
> 
> 1. This is the text of the first footnote
> 2. This is the text of the second footnote
> 
> 
> *** inline footnotes (one paragraph for all the footnotes) ***
> **************************************************************
> 
> 1. first footnote --- 2. second footnote --- 3. the third
> footnote, extending to the next line --- 4. fourth one
> 
> 
> *** footnotes in columns in ConTeXt (\setupfootnotes[n=3]) ***
> **************************************************************
> 
> 1. first footnote     2. second one         3. third one
> 4. fourth one, hy-    phenated
> 
> 
> "Inline footnotes" are good when you have a lot of short notes,
> that would eat a lot of vertical space, and sometimes other
> longer footnotes.
> I've put an m-dash as a separator, but you could use a wide
> space or another separator.
> 
> Footnotes in columns are good if they are ALL shorter than
> the column width.
> 
> The LaTeX package "footmisc" provides the "inline footnotes"
> by the option "para". But, if I understand right, LaTeX packages
> are not compatible with ConTeXt.

\setupnotation[footnote][alternative=serried,numbercommand=,numberstopper=.]
\setupnote    [footnote][paragraph=yes,inbetween=~–~]

\starttext

One\footnote{first footnote}
Two\footnote{second footnote}
Three\footnote{The third footnote, extending to the next line}
Four\footnote{fourth one}

\stoptext

Wolfgang