I tried all those Hraban, unsuccessfully, but finally 'happened' upon a 
solution by trying whitespace instead in the setups. Except that I had 
read somewhere in the mailing list (Pablo I think) that I would need to 
use \directsetup. I don't actually understand why, have never been sure 
about what \directsetup does, but there's no doubt it works in this 
case! So the following has done what I needed:


\startsetups[setups:footnotes]

  \setupwhitespace[.01em]

\stopsetups

\setupnote[before=\directsetup{setups:footnotes}]

Julian

On 23/4/23 20:34, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Am 23.04.23 um 09:21 schrieb jbf via ntg-context:
>> I realise that I should have been talking about the space between 
>> local footnotes, rather than interlinespace (previous email on this 
>> issue), but my basic problem still stands. My efforts to influence 
>> the space between footnotes placed locally is to no avail so far.
>>
>> I assume it is \setupnote (rather than \setupnotation, my earlier 
>> mistake) where I would need to somehow influence distance between 
>> footnotes which is currently too large. I have tried 
>> \setupnote[before={\blank[small]}, after={\blank[small]}]. It appears 
>> to be reducing the space before the entire block of local footnotes 
>> but not between the footnotes themselves, which is what I am trying 
>> to do.
>
> Did you try "inbetween" or "distance"? (I’d assume the latter is for 
> the distance between number and text, but inbetween is usually 
> vertically.)
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupnote
>
>> Am I correct in assuming that the \setupnote should influence my 
>> \placelocalfootnotes? Or is there something else I should do in the 
>> case of local footnotes as distinct from general footnotes (my 
>> document contains ONLY local footnotes, however).
>
> I was wondering if \setupnote[localfootnote][…] makes sense, but I 
> can’t find in the sources if local footnotes are setup differently 
> from general one.
>
> Hraban
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