From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Placing footnotes in right margin en bloc at bottom of page
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:45:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C513182.1030603@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocdrsvjm.fsf@denkblock.local>
Am 28.07.10 13:19, schrieb Elias Oltmanns:
> Hi there,
>
> not being a ConTeXt user myself, I have been advised on the tex-d-l list
> of the German TUG that a certain problem could possibly be solved more
> easily in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. So, here is what I'm trying to achieve:
> The numerous but short footnotes of a document shall be placed in the
> right margin rather than below the main text area. Additionally, though,
> the footnotes should not be placed near the call up (similar to what
> \marginpar does), but type set en bloc at the bottom of the page. In
> other words, the main text area should have fixed margins all round
> across all pages and the footnotes should be printed in a small
> rectangular block beside the main text area such that the height of this
> block varies according to the number of footnotes on the page, but the
> block is always flushed to the bottom of the page. You'll find an ascii
> art illustration below.
>
> Is such a layout feasible in ConTeXt without too much hassle at all?
This is easy:
\setupnote[footnote][location=text]
\setuptexttexts[margin][][{\framed[frame=off,offset=none,align=low,height=\textheight,width=broad]{\placenotes[footnote]}}]
%\showframe
\starttext
text\footnote{one} text\footnote{two} text\footnote{\input tufte\par} text
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 11:19 Elias Oltmanns
2010-07-29 7:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-07-29 13:33 ` Elias Oltmanns
2010-07-29 14:51 ` Oliver Heins
2010-07-29 19:36 ` Elias Oltmanns
2010-08-02 13:29 ` Oliver Heins
2010-07-29 21:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-01 14:37 ` Elias Oltmanns
2010-08-09 10:28 ` Elias Oltmanns
2010-08-09 18:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-09 21:14 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-10 2:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-10 14:40 ` Elias Oltmanns
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