Thanks, Rik. That works very nicely.

Alan

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Rik <rik@panix.com> wrote:

> On 2017-01-31 15:52, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
> I am trying to set some poetry in a footnote and have encountered a
> problem.
>
> \starttext
> Here is a footnote.
> \footnote{Some text:
> \startlines
> a
> b
> c
> d
> \stoplines
> And some more text.}
>
> \stoptext
>
> produces
>  a b c  d
> (a single line). Is this a wee bug or have I missed something?
>
> I am using the latest minimals.
>
> Alan
>
> Place that section into a buffer:
>
> \starttext
> Here is a footnote.
> \startbuffer[fn:abcd]
>  \startlines
>   a
>   b
>   c
>   d
>  \stoplines
> \stopbuffer
> \footnote{Some text:
> \getbuffer[fn:abcd]
> And some more text.}
> \stoptext
>
> --
> Rik
>
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