Re: Footnote rules

Re: Footnote rules

[Hans Hagen]

Berend de Boer wrote:

> What rules does context use in setting footnotes? In a \startopsomming
> .\stopopsomming I've used two footnotes. This construction is printed at
> the bottom of the page. For two footnotes doesn't seem to be enough space.
> Context moves both footnotes to the next page.
> 
> I would have expected that at least one footnote remained at the first
> page. But maybe it's more logical to have consecutive footnotes together.
> 
> Footnotes will be removed from this document (they just serve as temporary
> comments not to forget things...), but I was wondering what algorithm
> context uses.

The current mechanism is a compromis. When possible, footnotes are
treated directly, which means that they are taken into account directly,
but sometimes (e.g. in tables, they are postponed, which can lead to
assynchronous placement. Take a look at core-not for some examples. You
can also switch to local footnotes and place them local, think of
footnotes in a table, that you want to attach to a table. 

In your case, placement can interfere with the fact that breaking pages
in itemizations is optimized in a second pass (no single itemized line
at the end/top of a page).  

The main probloem is not the mechanism, but the fact that TeX lacks some
mode tests (fuzzy \ifinner etc), which we already discussed with the
etex team. 

If you run: 

  texexec --modu core-not

you get more documentation (I sent you core-mod.zip a few days back). 

Hans

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Footnote rules

[Berend de Boer]

Hai All,

What rules does context use in setting footnotes? In a \startopsomming 
.\stopopsomming I've used two footnotes. This construction is printed at 
the bottom of the page. For two footnotes doesn't seem to be enough space. 
Context moves both footnotes to the next page.

I would have expected that at least one footnote remained at the first 
page. But maybe it's more logical to have consecutive footnotes together.

Footnotes will be removed from this document (they just serve as temporary 
comments not to forget things...), but I was wondering what algorithm 
context uses.

Groetjes,

Berend.