I recently found the pagecolumns manual (
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/pagecolumns.pdf), and in several
of the examples (including those for side floats and footnotes), the
addition of a blank page after the end of the pagecolumns environment also
seems to occur. So when the manual says, "We always start at a new page and
end on a new one," does it mean that this is a feature of pagecolumns? And
if so, is there any way to disable it? I have no problem with a page break
after the end of the pagecolumns environment, but an empty page added after
the break seems unnecessary. I checked for a wiki page on the
\definepagecolumns command to get more information on its accepted inputs,
but there doesn't appear to be a page for this command.

Joey

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:40 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am typesetting a document using pagecolumns to ensure that my footnotes
> are set ragged-bottom in columns. I have observed some unexpected behavior
> whenever the last column on a page is left incomplete: a blank page is
> added at the end of the document. A minimal working example follows:
>
> ```
>
> \starttext
>
> \startpagecolumns[n=2]
>
> \dorecurse{3}{\par\input zapf}
>
> \stoppagecolumns
>
> \stoptext
> ```
>
> I typeset this using ConTeXt version 2020.03.10, as released with TeXLive
> 2020. Notably, if \dorecurse{3} is changed to \dorecurse{2} or
> \dorecurse{6} (so that the text ends in the first column of a page), then
> there is no problem. I have tried to fix this by specifying page=no in the
> \startpagecolumns arguments, but it did not change anything. Is there
> something else I am missing?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Joey
>