On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 10:47 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> The style, color etc. of the footnote text can be changed with the \setupnotation
> (in older versions \setupnotedefinition) command, the \setupnote (or \setupfootnotes)
> command controls only general settings like the rule or the space before
> the footnote block and the style and color of the number in the running text.
> 
> Wolfgang

I tried just using the following:

\setupnotation[footnote]
    [color=colour_footnote_text,
     backgroundcolor=colour_footnote_background]

Now all of the footnotes are sadly busted to shit. They're all numbered
3 and their text consists of a single word - the same word for all of
them. =(

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