[NTG-context] footnote twiks

[Vit Zyka]

Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
> Ciro Soto wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need two more twiks for my footnotes:
>> I am using asterisk instead of numbers or letter for the footnotes.
>>
>>
>> Twik 1:
>> My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the
>> last word in the sentence.
>> Example:
>> Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf}
>> will print an asterisk touching the V letter.
>> How do I instruct context to give me some room between the V and the 
>> asterisk?
>>
>> Second twik:
>> How to control the distance between the page text and the rule line
>> that separates
>> the footnote and the page text?
>> I tried the "distance=", th
>> e "height="  arguments in the
>> setupfootnotes, but they don't do
>> what I want.
>> thank you
>>  
>>
> patch in core-not:
> 
> \unprotect
> 
> \def\dolastnotesymbol
>  {\removeunwantedspaces
>   \doifitalicelse\/\donothing % Charles IV \footnote{the fourth}

Just a question: why use 'italic correction' only for it/bi/sl/bs and 
not in every time (where is usually = 0pt but not necesserily)? It is 
part of font design. We are affraid of bad-designed fonts?

If we do not want to add useless 0pt kern, we can write

   \/\ifdim\lastkern=0pt\unkern\fi

vit

>   \ifdim\lastkern=\notesignal
>     \dodonotesymbol{\kern\noteparameter\c!distance}% gets the font 
> right, hack !
>   \fi
>   \nobreak
>   \doifelse{\noteparameter\c!interaction}\v!no
>     
> {\dodonotesymbol{\lastnotenumber\domovednote\v!previouspage\v!nextpage}%
>      \ifconditional\pagewisenotes
>        \rawreference\s!fnt{\s!fnt:f:\internalfootreference}{}%
>      \fi}
>     {\gotobox
>        
> {\dodonotesymbol{\lastnotenumber\domovednote\v!previouspage\v!nextpage}}%
>        [\s!fnt:t:\internalfootreference]%
>      \rawreference\s!fnt{\s!fnt:f:\internalfootreference}{}}%
>   \globallet\lastnotesymbol\relax}
> 
> \protect
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 1]
> 
> {Charles IV  \footnote{oeps}}
> {\sl Charles IV  \footnote{oeps}}
> {\bs Charles IV  \footnote{oeps}}
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 

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