[NTG-context] Re: Footnote style

[NTG-context] Re: Footnote style

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 24.06.2025 um 16:57 schrieb John Was:
> Hello.  I haven't yet found options that would allow me to alter the 
> style of footnote cues in the text (I would prefer slightly larger and 
> slightly higher) or the positioning of the footnotes themselves:  
> instead of the note numberse standing out to the left of the text area, 
> my aim is to position them indented (by 8pt), with a fixed 4pt space 
> after the note number before the text of the note begins.  Is this possible?
> 
> If there is a package that will let me have even more control, that 
> would be excellent.  The book series for which I want to use ConTeXt has 
> always had traditional features such as fitting a short note within the 
> break line of a previous longer note, centring two (or more) short notes 
> at the foot of a page with a 24pt gap between each, adding a 3pt space 
> at the end of a note which has overrun onto the next page, and so on.  I 
> can do all these in XeTeX but realize I may have to accept some 
> compromise in ConTeXt.  The one thing I think wouldn't be acceptable is 
> the note numbers standing to the left of the text area.

Do you have a example (input + output)?

Wolfgang

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[NTG-context] Re: Footnote style

[John Was]

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Thanks Wolfgang - that's extremely useful (and it would have taken me ages
to find these parameters).

Best wishes

John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні!
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 at 17:03, Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> Am 24.06.2025 um 16:57 schrieb John Was:
> > Hello.  I haven't yet found options that would allow me to alter the
> > style of footnote cues in the text (I would prefer slightly larger and
> > slightly higher) or the positioning of the footnotes themselves:
> > instead of the note numberse standing out to the left of the text area,
> > my aim is to position them indented (by 8pt), with a fixed 4pt space
> > after the note number before the text of the note begins.  Is this
> possible?
>
> The change the style of the footnote number in the running text use the
> \setupnote command and to change the style/layout of the footnote entry
> itself use the \setupnotation command.
>
> %%%% begin example
> \setupnote
>    [textcommand={\offset[y=-1ex]},% raise the number
>       textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]}]% change the font size
>
> \setupnotation
>    [footnote]
>    [  alternative=serried,% number in the paragraph
>       headcommand=\groupedcommand{\hskip{8pt}}{},% space before the number
>          distance=4pt,% space after the number
>     numbercommand={\offset[y=-1ex]},% raise the number
>       numberstyle={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]},% change the font size
>            before={\blank[medium]}]% vertical space before the entry
>
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{3}{\samplefile{weisman}\footnote{\samplefile{ward}} }
> \stoptext
> %%%% end example
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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