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