footnotes

[Achim Jander <achim@jander.de>]

Hello!
Nearly one year ago I posted a question about alignment of 
footnote-numbers to the list. I then was occupied by other projects, so 
I now want to catch up and thank you for your replies.I am now again 
trying to make some work using Context. At first, I have to state that I 
am impressed about the advancement of Context. But I still have some 
problems with footnotes:
1. My annoying alignment problem. We now have headalign=flushright, that 
is the right direction, but not sufficient. What I additionally need is 
that the width of the number-box is determined by the broadest number on 
the page, ie I need to have
1
2
3
...
but on the other page:
~8
~9
10
of course the same with 99 and 100 and so on. In an ideal world, the 
indent of the footnote-text would also change, but for the moment I 
could live with an equal indent for all pages having only the alignment 
of the notes change.
I then did some research, read the mail-list etc. What I found on the 
list was a short message about \doifnoteonsamepageelse, I thougt it 
could be a starting-point. But trying the given example
\starttext

\dorecurse {100} {

test \footnote{\doifnoteonsamepageelse[footnote]{ibidem}{aaa}}

}

\stoptext
gave me 100 nice little notes, all containing aaa, which was not what I 
had expected... I then wanted to figure out a little more what was 
happening, tried to enable tracking with 
\enabletrackers[structure.notes], but could not find any of the expected 
messages in the log? What is going on?
Because this problem is a real show stopper for me, I hope you can help 
me getting a solution.


2. The second, but not equal important problem is multicolum footnotes. 
It seems only to work with very short footnotes, in my example
\setupnote[footnote][n=2, columndistance=12pt]

\starttext

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{This is a very long note which will cover 
multiple lines. This is a very long note which will cover multiple 
lines. This is a very long note which will cover multiple lines. This is 
a very long note which will cover multiple lines. This is a very long 
note which will cover multiple lines. This is a very long note which 
will cover multiple lines.} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

This is just for \footnote{note1} testing

\stoptext
the long footnote 5 covers both columns.


3. At last I tried to set the footnotes in one paragraph, a layout 
sometimes used in our publications. As I found, the setup should be
\setupnote[footnote][n=0, location=text]

but trying it with the text of problem 2 i only got an Arithmetic overflow.


For clarification, I am using ConTeXt ver: 2010.12.10 15:15 MKIV fmt: 
2010.12.11 int: english/english


Thanks,
Achim



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