On 07/01/2017 04:33 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 06/30/2017 09:33 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> motivated by a question on TeX.SX I wanted to typeset multicolumn text with multicolumn footnotes.
>>  However, on the first page the distance between the columns and the footnote area is way too large.
>>  Occurs in TL2017 and latest beta.
>>
>> Also, is there something to influence the alignment inside the footnotes more aggressively.  There
>> are a couple of bad boxes.  Is it possible to turn of balancing for the footnote columns?
>> [...]
>> \setupnotation
>>   [footnote]
>>   [alternative=hanging,
>>    align={raggedright,verytolerant}]
> 
> Hi Henri,
> 
> add width=broad to this.

That seems to make the alignment a little more relaxed (still not so nice in my opinion).  At the same time the text now crashes into the footnotes on the second page (see attached).  I also noticed that footnote 5 is displayed on the first page but the anchor is on the second page.

> But in that case \setupnotes[spacebefore=3em] doesn’t work.
> 
> Just in case it helps,
> 
> Pablo
>