Am 25.10.2009 um 16:00 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> achim@jander.de wrote:
>> I am typesetting documents with a large amount of footnotes, and
>> want to have the footnote-number aligned to the correct decimal  
>> place.
>
> as the relevant info is present deep down in context i can imagine a  
> solution but it's not a 5 minutes job

fix the text/title alignment in descriptions and right aligned numbers  
are possible

strc-des.mkiv:

@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@
          {\dodescriptionhandler
             {\vtop
                {\hsize\dimexpr\descriptionsheadwidth- 
\descriptionsheaddistance\relax
+               \doifsomething{\descriptionparameter\c!align} 
{\setupalign[\descriptionparameter\c!align]}%
                 \begstrut\descriptionparameter\c!text\ignorespaces 
\currentdescriptiontext\endstrut}}}}%
     \doifelse{\descriptionparameter\c!aligntitle}\v!no
       {\leftdescriptionskip\leftskip\rightdescriptionskip\rightskip}

Wolfgang