Re: Indentation within footnotes

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>]

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> Am 15.03.2015 um 22:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:43:47 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com <mailto:schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> Am 15.03.2015 um 19:19 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
>>> 
>>> Hi Pablo,
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:24:47 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Changing indenting to {yes, next} only the third
>>>> paragraph in the footnote is indented.
>>> 
>>> My guess is that the first "next" is already hardwired into the footnote mechanism. If you remove the "next" it should work. So this works here:
>>> 
>>> % \setupnotation[footnote][indenting={yes,big,next}]
>>> \setupnotation[footnote][indenting={yes,big}]
>>> 
>>> When I had the "next" I got the same result as you.
>> 
>> 
>> I will show below the reason for the unexpected behaviour of the next keyword. What you should
>> keep in mind is that context uses the same mechanism for enumerations, description and note
>> entries.
>> 
>> In older versions of the mechanism indentation was set before the title and content where placed
>> but this produces unwanted results when you used the “next” keyword because the title itself
>> was recognised as first paragraph (see page 1). After moving the indentation setting between
>> the title and the content (see page 2) the “next” keyword produced the expected output.
>> 
>> The problem is now when make the title part of the first paragraph because the indentation
>> is changed until we start the second paragraph and the “next” keyword applies now to the third
>> paragraph.
>> 
>> %%%% begin example
>> \setuppapersize[A5]
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> % Page 1
>> 
>> \start \setupindenting[yes,medium,next]
>> 
>> \noindent{\bf Description Title}
>> 
>> \input knuth
>> 
>> \stop
>> 
>> \page
>> 
>> % Page 2
>> 
>> \start
>> 
>> \noindent{\bf Description Title}
>> 
>> \setupindenting[yes,medium,next]
>> 
>> \input knuth
>> 
>> \stop
>> 
>> \page
>> 
>> % Page 3
>> 
>> \start
>> 
>> \noindent{\bf Description Title}
>> \setupindenting[yes,medium,next]
>> \input knuth
>> 
>> \stop
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> %%%% end example
> 
> Thanks, Wolfgang -- or is it Hans? ;-) -- for this very instructive example!
> 
> I just made one change: \noindentation instead of \noindent (my understanding is that we're supposed to avoid very low-level indenting commands).
> 
> So the first paragraph of a footnote insertion contains an implicit title, or does the footnote numeral function as title? Anyway, very interesting!

The footnote number is placed as title.

Wolfgang


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