I have been following this with some interest, since I am having a similar
problem with the vertical spacing between notes in MKII.

In

\setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers,
way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=9.6pt,
style=normal,after={\blank[3pt]}]
\starttext

This is
\footnote{abcde.} a test
\footnote{ABCDE.} line with
\footnote{GHIJK.} footnotes.
\footnote{ghijk.}

\stoptext

I am finding that adjusting “before” and “after” affects the placement of
notes on a given page as a block, but leaves the spacing between the notes
on the list unchanged. So, is there a way to adjust the vertical spacing *
between* notes in MKII?

Alan

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 03.06.2012 um 01:17 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
>
> >> Add \setupnotation[footnote][display=no] and the example will work.
> >
> > Many thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.
> >
> > If I didn't get your explanation wrong, this example should work:
> >
> > \setupnote[footnote][inbetween=\blank]
> > \setupnotation[footnote][display=no]
> > \starttext
> > \dorecurse{5}{foot\footnote{note}}
> > \stoptext
> >
> > I'm afraid it doesn't. What is wrong here?
>
> You foot now “paragraph=yes”.
>
> \setupnote    [footnote][paragraph=yes]
> \setupnotation[footnote][display=no,alternative=serried]
>
> \starttext \showframe
> \dorecurse{5}{foot\footnote{note} }
> \stoptext
>
> >>>> The alternative you are looking for might be to locally set a
> >>>> different parskip for the footnote inserts:
> >>>
> >>> It adds the space also before or after the first or last one (I guess
> >>> this is the way these options should work).
> >>
> >> It’s a bug because in the following example even the space between the
> notes is too big,
> >> it should be 5mm but actually it’s 10mm.
> >>
> >> \setupnotation[footnote][before={\blank[5mm]},after={\blank[5mm]}]
> >
> > Are you sure that this is buggy? If each note should have 5mm before and
> > after it, I think the right space between notes should be 10mm (5mm
> > after the previous note plus 5mm before the next note). Maybe I'm being
> > too simplistic, but I think it's right.
>
> No, that’s wrong. When you have to \blank one after another only the bigger
> value is used and the other one is ignored. In the following example
> the space between the two frames is 2 lines and not 3 lines because
> the smaller value is ignored. It’s possible to add up both value or to
> ignore the previous/next value but in this case you need an additional
> keyword for \blank.
>
> \defineframedtext[test][width=broad,align=middle]
>
> \starttext \showgrid
>
> \starttest[before={\blank[line]},after={\blank[2*line]}]
> One
> \stoptest
>
> \starttest[before={\blank[line]},after={\blank[2*line]}]
> One
> \stoptest
>
> \blank[4*line]
>
> \starttest[before={\blank[2*line]},after={\blank[line]}]
> One
> \stoptest
>
> \starttest[before={\blank[2*line]},after={\blank[line]}]
> One
> \stoptest
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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