From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10866 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: footnote control Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:09:25 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030208200158.03087c58@server-1> References: <3E40850E.38A11A4B@lamar.colostate.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044732156 30646 80.91.224.249 (8 Feb 2003 19:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18haYb-0007y2-00 for ; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:22:33 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6721610B46; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:24:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A8510AEC for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:11:16 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl ([213.75.95.40]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HA07Y400.LKN for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:10:52 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@remote-1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3E40850E.38A11A4B@lamar.colostate.edu> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10866 At 08:29 PM 2/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Cabinet, > >A couple of footnote questions: > >1. Is there an option for choosing one's own reference mark for any >given footnote, like in Plain? > >2. Is there a conversion option for the famous nine reference mark >sequence (\fnsymbol in LaTeX): > >star, dagger, double dagger, section, inverted `P', parallel, >star-star, dagger-dagger, double dagger-double dagger >? > >I did not see it in the manual. \starttext \setupfootnotes [conversion=HowAboutIt] \defineconversion [HowAboutIt] [One,Two,Three] test \footnote{test} test \footnote{test} test \footnote{test} \stoptext any conversion can be used (see core-con.tex end of file for examples) >3. Is there a way to control the distance between the footnote rule and >the firstline of the footnote? \def\MyRule {\blackrule[width=3cm,height=1mm] \vskip.5cm} \setupfootnotes [rule=\MyRule, conversion=HowAboutIt] >4. ConTeXt places the footnote reference mark just on the outside of the >margin. Can I place it inside? Can I indent the first paragraph of the >footnote with the reference mark (like in LaTeX)? it's a description, so any of those settings apply \setupfootnotedefinition [location=left, width=2cm] [some time ago i sent you a some definable footnote macros, a sort of prelude to your critical edition project] >Unrelated: > >Canw I make an entire document default to oldstyle numbers? (Probably >not, since Knuth mapped these glyphs in a strange way). you can, but you should construct a virtual font for that Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------