What is the "official" way to reset footnote numbering by chapter?
\setupnote[footnote][way=bychapter] has no effect, searching the mailing
list I found \setupnumber[footnote][way=bychapter] which works only with
MkIV, so is there a MkII equivalent (I don't use MkII myself, but just
to document it in the wiki).

\setupnumber[footnote][way=bychapter] works fine except when I use
frontmatter environment, after removing the start/stopfrontmatter from
this example, footnotes will reset by chapter, or if I put
\setupnumber[footnote][way=bychapter] inside one of the chapters.

\starttext
\setupnumber[footnote][way=bychapter]

\startfrontmatter
\chapter{One}
\input knuth\footnote{chapter one}

\chapter{Two}
\input knuth\footnote{chapter two}
\stopfrontmatter
\stoptext

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer