Re: footnotes for marginals?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:06 PM 4/2/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Tuesday, April 02, 2002 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>HHR> Ahoi!
>
>HHR> Someone asked after footnotes for margin notes on TeX-D-L.
>HHR> I asserted such would be possible with ConTeXt... ;-/
>HHR> ("Write 100 times: I must not boast!")
>
>HHR> Just
>HHR> \inmargin{Das\footnote{Randnote} steht im Rand.}
>HHR> gives a "missing number".
>
>HHR> Is there a simple way?
>
>Not tested: try with local footnotes.

interestingly a simple test failed because of nested margin notes (footnote 
numbers by default go into the margin too), after patching:

\def\maakmargetekstblok#1#2#3#4#5#6%
   {#4\relax
    \bgroup
    \forgetall % added, else problems with 'cen
    \mindermeldingen
    \hsize#1\relax
    \doifnumberelse\margetekstnummer % new
      {\ifcase\margetekstnummer\relax
         \def\margetekstnummer{#2}%
       \fi}
      {}%
    \doifnumberelse .....

and add the footnote handlers in:

\def\dodoinmarge[#1][#2][#3][#4][#5]#6%
   {\ignorespaces
    \bgroup\postponefootnotes % group is (somehow) needed
    \doifinsetelse{\v!laag}{#4}
      {\lowinmargintrue}
      {\lowinmarginfalse}%
    \processaction
      [#1]
      [  \v!links=>#2{#6},
        \v!rechts=>#3{#6},
       \s!unknown=>\ifdubbelzijdig
                     \doifcommonelse{+,-}{#4}
                       {\doinmargereverse#2#3{#6}}
                       {\doinmargenormal#2#3{#6}}%
                   \else
                     #2{#6}%
                   \fi]%
    \rawpagereference{\s!mar}{#5}%
    \flushfootnotes\egroup % don't forget the group
    \ignorespaces}

in page-mar.tex, you can indeed get footnotes in margins (although i don't 
know how this behaves in complex pages).

\inleft{test \footnote{test}} \input tufte

now, if you do sick things like:

   \dorecurse{100}{test test \inleft{test \footnote{test}} test\par}

and don't want footnotes to be split over pages, say:

   \setupfootnotes[split=verystrict]

Seems to work ok.

Hans
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