Am Do., 20. Juni 2019 um 17:00 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>:

> Hi Hans,
>
> as mentioned a few times by others long footnote entries have problems
> with line breaks.
>
> In mixed columns you get a single line for each entry and in page
> columns the width for the entries is wrong.
>
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{dawkins}\footnote{\samplefile{jojomayer}} }
>
> \page
>
> \startmixedcolumns
> \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{dawkins}\footnote{\samplefile{jojomayer}} }
> \stopmixedcolumns
>
> \page
>
> \setupnote[footnote][alternative=columns,n=2]
>

The setup above shouldn't be part of the example.

Wolfgang