Re: paragraph footnotes line height

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 3/10/2015 10:58 PM, mf wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 07/03/2015 alle 10.59 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster ha
> scritto:
>>> Am 07.03.2015 um 00:08 schrieb mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I'd like to know how I can set the line height of paragraph footnotes.
>>> They get the line height set with \setupinterlinespace, whether I use
>>> the grid or not.
>>> Here's my configuration:
>>>
>>> \setupnotation[footnote][
>>>   alternative=serried,
>>>   numbercommand=,
>>>   numberstopper=,
>>>   numbercommand=\high,
>>>   numberconversion=a,
>>>   way=bypage,
>>>   width=0pt,
>>>   location=page
>>> ]
>>> \setupnote[footnote][
>>>   paragraph=yes,
>>>   inbetween= \emdash{} ,
>>>   location=page
>>> ]
>>
>> \startsetups[footnote:interlinespace]
>>    \setupinterlinespace[line=10pt]
>> \stopsetups
>>
>> \setupnote[footnote][setups=footnote:interlinespace]
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> I have found a solution, searching with docfetcher for the occurrencies
> of "\baselineskip" in all the ConTeXt documentation I've downloaded.
> In "LaTeX in proper ConTeXt", at page 26, Berend de Boer shows how to
> set the the interline space relatively to the body font size.
>
> My layout has a body font size of 11 points on 12 points of interline
> space; I'm using grid snapping (\setuplayout[ ... grid=tolerant, ... ]).
>
> Instead of setting the interline space like this:
> \setupinterlinespace[12pt]
> I've used:
> \setupinterlinespace[1.09\bodyfontsize]  % 11pt * 1.09 = 12pt
>
> This way:
> - the paragraph footnotes' interline space is less than the 12 points of
> the grid
> - Wolfgang's solution works too:
>    \startsetups[footnote:interlinespace]
>      \setupinterlinespace[line=1.2\bodyfontsize]
>    \stopsetups
>    but only to widen the interline space of footnotes;
>
> When I try to shrink the footnotes' interline space with:
>    \startsetups[footnote:interlinespace]
>      \setupinterlinespace[line=.9\bodyfontsize]
>    \stopsetups
> the only vertical space that shrinks it the one between the bottom of
> the main text and the footnotes' top.
>
> Have you an explanation for that behaviour? I'm new to ConTeXt and I
> still need to develop a "ConTeXt mindset"; perhaps the people who know
> how ConTeXt works will find that understandable.
> Any hint is welcome.

the defaults are these:

\setupinterlinespace
   [height=.72,
    depth=.28,
    line=2.8\exheight]

so you can try for instance

\setupinterlinespace
   [line=3.2\exheight]

the height/depth are ratios used in struts etc



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