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We are in a fully programmable environment,
and it is extremely unConTeXtish to hack the visual appearance.
I am an XML author, so am pretty amazed to hear that one should not mix appearance and content in ConTeXt. Most of a ConTeXt document involves visual appearance. What is one saying when one writes \blank[12pt]?
This is visual appearance, of cource. But I am not talking about one single instance of \blank anywhere, I am talking about changing a reaeated statement (like the footnotes) by visual means. And formatting instructions have no right to exist there (in fact they should be filtered out by \sanitizelogigalmarkup{\footnote...}. This is one of the great advantages of using a high level language such as LaTeX or ConTeXt (and ConTeXt so much more than LaTeX) that we can define layout in this way.
to this i can add that concerning the blank, one preferably should follow the indirect approach, thereby avoiding hard coded numbers in the document source
\defineblank[mybig][33pt]
....
\blank[mybig]
Hans
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