Hi Brooks,
Brooks Moses wrote:
I've been updating the Footnotes page on the Wiki, and have a few
questions as a result:
1.) Footnotes in footnotes in footnotes. Are these possible? When I do
something like \footnote{A note\footnote{With a note\footnote{With a
third footnote.}.}.}, only the first two notes are included in the
footnote block, though the number for the third footnote is generated.
The wiki text was a bit too enthousiastic, I believe.
From some experimentation, it appears that you can have
* footnotes in footnotes,
* other (user-defined) notes in footnotes,
* notes in footnotes in footnotes,
* footnotes in notes,
* notes of different types inside eachother
but not:
* footnotes in footnotes in footnotes
* notes in notes of the same type
* footnotes in notes in notes
2.) Footnotes as marginals. There was text on the Wiki saying that it's
possible to typeset footnotes as marginals, but I can't find any
references to this in the ConTeXt manual. Am I missing something? I
know it's possible to do marginal notes, but those don't get footnote
numbers, and so aren't the same thing....
There is an example in core-not.tex, but it doesn't work :-(
\definenote
[mynote]
[way=bypage,location=,width=\marginwidth,rule=,before=,factor=0]
\setuplayout
[backspace=5cm,margin=3cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle]
\setuptexttexts[margin][\vbox to
\textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill}][]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{test \mynote{one one one one one one}
\input zapf \mynote{one one one one one one} }
\stoptext
(nothing at all shows, see also the bug below, at point 7.)
3.) Footnotes placed without line breaks. If one does a number of short
footnotes, they get set like so:
1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four
Is it possible to have them set without line breaks, like this? If so,
how?
1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four
At least, you can do \setupfootnotes[n=4], that typesets in
four columns. The actual footnotes are desciptions, perhaps these
can be tricked in appearing in-line themselves?
4.) Footnote alignment. Currently, footnotes are set so that the left
end of the text of the footnote is aligned with the left edge of the
text, and the footnote number hangs out into the margin. Is it possible
to change this? (For instance, suppose I would like the number aligned
to the text-edge, and then a fixed-width space, and then the text?)
Use
\setupfootnotedefinition[location=left]
See \setupdescriptions for other possible options.
5.) In LaTeX, there's a means to place a footnote (and generate a number
and reference for the footnote) without typesetting the number in the
text, in order to handle cases where the "real" footnote mechanism
breaks down. Is it possible to do this in ConTeXt?
Does \footnote[-]{An unnumbered note} do what you want?
7. What does the "location=high" in \setupfootnotes do?
This is supposed to be a baseline correction for the bottom of the
page, I think. What it actually seems to do is make the footnote
texts disappear, like in this example:
\setupfootnotes[location=high]
\starttext
\dorecurse{4}{\input zapf \footnote{one one one one one one}\endgraf }
\stoptext
looks like a bug :-(
Taco
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