Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

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

Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele:
> If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having 
> their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each 
> one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still 
> unsolved, I think.
>
> ———
>
> In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, 
> fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in 
> published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt 
> Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between 
> two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as 
> horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 
> marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional 
> dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the 
> author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in 
> paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.
>
> \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \FancyBreak
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
>
> I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end 
> for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me.

\unprotect

\def\????fb{@@@@fb}

\getparameters
   [\????fb]
   [\c!spacebefore=,
     \c!spaceafter=]

\def\fancybreakparameter#1%
   
{\csname\????fb\ifcsname\????fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname}

\def\setupfancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak}

\def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\ifsecondargument
      \getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%
    \else
      \getparameters[\????fb][#1]%
    \fi}

\def\definefancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak}

\def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\ifsecondargument
      \getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%
    \fi
    \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}}

\def\dofancybreak#1%
   {\begingroup
    \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}%
    \everyvbox{\raggedcenter}%
    \dowithnextbox
      {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]%
       \flushnextbox
       \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]%
       \endgroup}
      \normalvbox}

\definefancybreak[fancybreak]

\protect

\starttext
\input knuth
\fancybreak{$* * *$}
\input ward
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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