In the book I am working on, I would like to have substantial endnotes, perhaps 10 to 20 pages of them. The design I have in mind is to collect all the endnotes in an appendix (actually an unnumbered backmatter chapter). It should have separate sections called "Notes for Chapter 1", "Notes for Chapter 2", or similar. The note number should reset for each chapter, and in the endnotes the note number should appear full-size rather than in a small font. Finally, for the interactive version of the book, the endnotes should be coupled to their references in the text.
I can see how to get some of these features in ConTeXt, but not all. Using \setupfootnotes[location=text,way=bychapter] and \placefootnotes, I can get all the notes to appear together, but I don't know how to break them up by chapter or reformat the number (\setupfootnotedefinition [headstyle=...] wasn't helping?). Moreover, it looks like the macros want to collect them up in a giant \vbox, which might not scale too well. Alternatively, the text block mechanism seems almost tailor-made for this situation, except for one thing: I would like to couple the note, which is naturally an enumeration, with the tiny little raised note number in the text, which does not seem to be naturally an enumeration or description (because it's in horizontal mode rather than vertical). Maybe the coupling mechanism is general enough to do this; I don't know. It wouldn't be overly hard (I hope) to do the coupling myself using ConTeXt's reference commands, but I wonder if there is a better way. -- Miller Maley
