Indented footnotes in ConTeXt

["\"H. Özoguz\"" <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>]

Am 21.11.2012 08:50, schrieb ntg-context-request@ntg.nl:
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> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:28:11 -0600
> From: Adam Khan<loyalchap@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [NTG-context] Indented footnotes in ConTeXt
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> Greetings!
>
> I am writing a German critical edition in which I am using endnotes, and I
> am encountering severe difficulties with formatting them as I should wish.
>
> The idea is to indent the entire footnote?marker and text?0.5in.
>
> In ConTeXt (Mark II) on XeTeX, I can move the footnote marker with this
> set-up:
>
> \definenote[critical][conversion=characters,
>                        way=bychapter,
>                        location=text,
>                        bodyfont=12pt,
>                        margindistance=-.5in,
>                        align=flushleft]
>
> Then I move the text by adding the unsightly but functional hack
> \hskip.5into the beginning of the argument of
> \critical or \criticaltext.  Unfortunately, the endnotes do not flow from
> page to page in Mark II, and, from the comments on the source code, it
> appears that this cannot be helped.  Given the length and number of
> endnotes needed for my project, ConTeXt (Mark II) on XeTeX does not seem
> viable.
>
> In ConTeXt (Mark IV) on LuaTeX, on the other hand, the endnotes do flow
> from page to page, but the formatting does not appear to respond to the
> margindistance key.  From various related posts, the answer appears to lie
> in \setupnotation, but, whenever I attempt to pass this command, I get an
> ?undefined control sequence? error.
>
> In short, my question is, How do I code indenting each endnote .5in with
> the highest degree of automation and fewest hacks possible?
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Adam Khan

You can try, what I use for footnotes, maybe this is what you want or helps?

\setupnotation[footnote][
alternative=left,
width=2em,
numbercommand=\hskip1.6em\high]	%Fußnoten werden eingerückt und Nummer hochgestellt


Viel Erfolg.
Huseyin
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