Henning Hraban Ramm

8. Dezember 2015 um 12:11

Thank you for the suggestion, but I can’t see any change, even if I use extreme values for \spaceskip (like 0.1 or 10.0), neither in footnotes

The footnote on the second page is a line shorter.

\startsetups[footnote:space]
\spaceskip .7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink
\stopsetups

\starttext

\input zapf
\startfootnote
\input zapf
\stopfootnote

\page

\setupnote[footnote][setups=footnote:space]

\input zapf
\startfootnote
\input zapf
\stopfootnote

\stoptext

nor in my description (is the setups key even supposed to work in \definedescription?).

No, there is no setups key for description and you have to misuse the style key.

\define\CompressSpace
{\spaceskip .7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink}

\definedescription[compressedspace]

\starttext

\startcompressedspace
\input zapf
\stopcompressedspace

\setupdescription[compressedspace][style=\CompressSpace]

\startcompressedspace
\input zapf
\stopcompressedspace

\stoptext

Wolfgang