* footnotes with one * @ 2005-08-22 12:18 Ciro Soto 2005-08-22 12:57 ` Taco Hoekwater 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Ciro Soto @ 2005-08-22 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw) I looked at two context manuals and can't find the setting to get footnotes with * instead of a letter or a number. I need 4 footnotes in 4 different pages, and I would like them all of them with one sigle * thank you Ciro ------------- * like this -- ======================================= "All problems are at the interface. Each one of them has a solution." from: "The Guitar Maker: An Exploration of Wisdom, Design and Love." A novel by C. A. Soto Aguirre. Pub. Date: October 2005. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: footnotes with one * 2005-08-22 12:18 footnotes with one * Ciro Soto @ 2005-08-22 12:57 ` Taco Hoekwater 2005-08-22 18:59 ` Brooks Moses 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-08-22 12:57 UTC (permalink / raw) I think like this: \defineconversion[starred][*] \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred] Untested, but should work Cheers, Taco Ciro Soto wrote: > I looked at two context manuals and can't find the setting to > get footnotes with * instead of a letter or a number. > I need 4 footnotes in 4 different pages, and I would like > them all of them with one sigle * > > thank you > Ciro > ------------- > * like this > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: footnotes with one * 2005-08-22 12:57 ` Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-08-22 18:59 ` Brooks Moses 2005-08-22 23:44 ` Ciro Soto 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Brooks Moses @ 2005-08-22 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw) At 05:57 AM 8/22/2005, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote: > I think like this: > > \defineconversion[starred][*] > \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred] > >Untested, but should work It doesn't quite work. If you give a single argument to \defineconversion, it expects the conversion to be a command that takes an argument. Since you haven't taken an argument, the number gets typeset after the asterisk. Also, the asterisk needs to be in math mode to get positioned correctly, I think. Correcting for both of those gives this, which works: \def\gobble#1{} \defineconversion[starred][\mathematics{*}\gobble] \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred] However, that's somewhat of a hack; better is to set up the footnotes to reset the counter on each page, and then use one of ConTeXt's predefined conversion sets that starts with an asterisk but follows it with other symbols. That way, if one changes the file so that there end up being two footnotes on the same page, they won't both get asterisks (which would be confusing). That can be done quite simply, like so: \setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=set 2] Set 2 uses a \dag and then \ddag as the symbols after *, which is fairly standard typographic practice. If you prefer to do a sequence of *, **, ***, and **** instead, try something like this: \defineconversion [asterisks] [\mathematics{*}, \mathematics{**}, \mathematics{***}, \mathematics{****}, \mathematics{\dag}, \mathematics{\ddag}] \setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=asterisks] - Brooks ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: footnotes with one * 2005-08-22 18:59 ` Brooks Moses @ 2005-08-22 23:44 ` Ciro Soto 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Ciro Soto @ 2005-08-22 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw) Thank you for your replies. They helped. I need two more twiks... Twik 1: My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the last word in the sentence. Example: Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf} will print an asterisk touching the V letter. How do I instruct context to give me some room before printing the asterisk? Second twik: How to control the distance between the page text and the line that separates the footnote and the page text? I tried the "distance=", the "height=" arguments in the setupfootnotes, but they don't do what I want. thank you Ciro On 8/22/05, Brooks Moses <bmoses@stanford.edu> wrote: > At 05:57 AM 8/22/2005, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote: > > I think like this: > > > > \defineconversion[starred][*] > > \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred] > > > >Untested, but should work > > It doesn't quite work. > > If you give a single argument to \defineconversion, it expects the > conversion to be a command that takes an argument. Since you haven't taken > an argument, the number gets typeset after the asterisk. Also, the > asterisk needs to be in math mode to get positioned correctly, I > think. Correcting for both of those gives this, which works: > > \def\gobble#1{} > \defineconversion[starred][\mathematics{*}\gobble] > \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred] > > However, that's somewhat of a hack; better is to set up the footnotes to > reset the counter on each page, and then use one of ConTeXt's predefined > conversion sets that starts with an asterisk but follows it with other > symbols. That way, if one changes the file so that there end up being two > footnotes on the same page, they won't both get asterisks (which would be > confusing). > > That can be done quite simply, like so: > > \setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=set 2] > > Set 2 uses a \dag and then \ddag as the symbols after *, which is fairly > standard typographic practice. If you prefer to do a sequence of *, **, > ***, and **** instead, try something like this: > > \defineconversion > [asterisks] > [\mathematics{*}, > \mathematics{**}, > \mathematics{***}, > \mathematics{****}, > \mathematics{\dag}, > \mathematics{\ddag}] > \setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=asterisks] > > - Brooks > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ======================================= "All problems are at the interface. Each one of them has a solution." from: "The Guitar Maker: An Exploration of Wisdom, Design and Love." A novel by C. A. Soto Aguirre. Pub. Date: October 2005. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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