Well, that's sort of OK if you only have one or two footnotes and can fiddle with the manual placement of the footnotes. What I want is for the columns in the document to flow around the footnotes automatically througout the entire document. If you look at the following two (essentially the same) PDFs: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/HORSE-ctx.zip http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/HORSE-ltx.zip you can see what I am trying to achieve. The second file (prepared with Latex) flows automatically around the footnotes on pages 1 and 3, while the first file (prepared with Context) does not, subsequently looking awkward (if not ugly) and wasting valuable space. does anyone know how to acheive the flow of the Latex processed paper? Thanks for the suggestion though, I do appreciate the help. William D. Neumann On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Willi Egger wrote:

Hi William,

I do not know whether I can make you happy ...

I played with the following setup, which gives a comparable result, though it needs some manual actions:

\starttext \startcolumnset[n=2] \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] text with footnotes\footnote{a tip} text text \placelocalfootnotes \column text text text text text \stoplocalfootnotes \stopcolumnset \stoptext

William D. Neumann wrote:

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I'm preparing a paper in two column format, and I'm having issues with footnotes in one column affecting the text in the other column because the text in the other column stops at the same spot as the text in the column with the footnote rather than typsetting down to the bottom of the page.

For example, I am currently getting:

blah, blah, blah1 yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer ------ 1 footnote text here. footnote text here. footnote text here.

Instead of this (which I want)

blah, blah, blah1 yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer blah, blah, blah yammer, yammer, yammer ------ yammer, yammer, yammer 1 footnote text yammer, yammer, yammer here. footnote yammer, yammer, yammer text here. yammer, yammer, yammer footnote text here. yammer, yammer, yammer

How can this be done? I've tried playing with the various setup commands for columns and footnotes, but nothing seems to work. Any help is appreciated.

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