Re: Indented footnotes in ConTeXt

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 21.11.2012 um 08:54 schrieb "H. Özoguz" <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>:

> Am 21.11.2012 08:50, schrieb ntg-context-request@ntg.nl:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:28:11 -0600
>> From: Adam Khan<loyalchap@gmail.com>
>> To:ntg-context@ntg.nl
>> 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

\setupnotation
  [endnote]
  [alternative=left,
   hang=1,
   width=1.6em,
   headalign=flushright]

\starttext

\input knuth\endnote{\input ward }

\placenotes[endnote]

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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