On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 12.10.2010 um 11:48 schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
>
>> On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:32:27 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Am 05.10.2010 um 14:41 schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
>>>>
>>>> The above example illustrates a *spacing problem* after
>>>> \startfootnote \stopfootnote
>>>> (the spacing after the footnote enumerator differs from \footnote{xxxx})
>>>
>>> The \stopfootnote gobbles the next space, to prevent this you can say in
>>> mkii \setupnote[footnote][next=\autoinsertnextspace] but the ”next” key is
>>> missing in mkiv.
>>
>> Indeed!
>> What to do?
>
> Patch strc-not.mkiv

Did not see this before I posted my reply. Of course, using a proper key 
is better than explicitly add \autoinsertnextspace in the definition.

Aditya