oops, attached

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:17:27 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد  
<Idris.Hamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:13:22 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster  
> <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2. a complete list of those typographical settings (bidi, whitespace,  
>> etc,) which are have to explicitly setup for such environments?
>
>> Whitespace etc. are unrelated to the problem above and can be changed  
>> with the normal setup-commands.
>
> Counterexample to whitespace attached and below:
>
> \setupwhitespace[big]
>
> \starttext
> \input ward \par \input ward
> \startfootnote
> \input ward \par \input ward
> \stopfootnote{}
> \stoptext
>
> Whitespace is applied in the main text but not in the footnotes. How is  
> this case different from global declaration of bidi etc.? It seems these  
> elements really do live in their own world now..
>
> Again, what are the general classes of commands and guidelines governing  
> what declarations are globally applied and which are not?
>


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