From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22285 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brooks Moses Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Some Footnote Questions (from the Wiki) Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:28:22 -0700 Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20050904131747.02ed8ef8@cits1.stanford.edu> References: <4.3.1.2.20050903132728.01bfd2b8@cits1.stanford.edu> <4.3.1.2.20050903132728.01bfd2b8@cits1.stanford.edu> <431AC122.90905@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125867306 1639 80.91.229.2 (4 Sep 2005 20:55:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 04 22:54:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EC1VG-0008VF-OQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:54:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14B127B8; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26917-05-4; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4411279B; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972AB127B4 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27111-01-6 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.16.125]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC551278D for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:54:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mindolluin.stanford.edu (DNab42a62d.Stanford.EDU [171.66.166.45]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j84Ks1m5017189; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:54:03 -0700 X-Sender: brooks@cits1.stanford.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <431AC122.90905@elvenkind.com> Original-References: <4.3.1.2.20050903132728.01bfd2b8@cits1.stanford.edu> <4.3.1.2.20050903132728.01bfd2b8@cits1.stanford.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22285 Archived-At: At 02:40 AM 9/4/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >Brooks Moses wrote: >>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? Not quite, as it doesn't generate a number I can reference. What I'm thinking of is something that does what \nomarkfootnote does in the following example: A sentence\footnote{With a note\note[footB].}.\nomarkfootnote[footB]{And another.} should create the same output as nesting the footnotes: A sentence\footnote{With a note\footnote[footB]{And another.}.}. That is, \nomarkfootnote[ref] produces the same footnote as \footnote[ref], complete with an automatically-generated number that can be recalled with \note[ref] or the like. The only difference is that, like \footnote[-], it doesn't put anything in the running text. What this is useful for is for placing footnotes "in" things where one normally can't place footnotes, by only putting the \note part there, and the \nomarkfootnote in a convenient piece of nearby text. This would provide a way of solving the footnotes-in-footnotes-in...in-footnotes problem, and also might be useful in some cases with figures and tables and other floats. - Brooks