Column not Balancing, Footnote is Missing

Column not Balancing, Footnote is Missing

[Art Chimes]

Greetings, list. My first post here. Please be gentle!

The command \contextversion reports I am using 2020.09.03 20:03 on Windows 10.

The MWE below produces a column and a half of text, not balanced
(despite the \setupcolumns [...balance=yes...] command. Also, the
footnote *number* appears on the PDF, but the *text* of the footnote
doesn't.

However, when I use the online compiler (live.contextgarden.net,
reported version 2020.06.30 17:30, older than mine), the footnote text
*does* appear, though the columns are still not balanced.

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\usemodule[ipsum]
\setupfootnotes[location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=8.5pt]
\setupcolumns [n=2,balance=yes,blank=line]

\starttext
\chapter{Footnote Test  —  \contextversion}
\startcolumns

\ipsum

Cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi in nulla posuere sollicitudin
aliquam. Id aliquet risus feugiat in ante metus dictum at
tempor.\footnote{Thor, A.U.: {\it Latin 101 for Dummies} (Rome,
Dummies Pub., MCMLXXIX)}

\ipsum[alternative=lines,n=20]

\end columns
\stoptext

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Question (1) : Why don't the columns balance, and how can I fix it?
Question (2) : Why does the footnote appear only with the online
compiler? What am I doing wrong?
Question (3) : For extra credit: How can I get the footnotes to
stretch the entire width of the text block instead of the width of one
column?

I did try to parse the somewhat opaque (to me) information in the wiki
and looked in the mailing list archives, but I didn't find the
information I needed.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

Art in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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Re: Column not Balancing, Footnote is Missing

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Art Chimes schrieb am 08.09.2020 um 00:38:
> Greetings, list. My first post here. Please be gentle!
>
> The command \contextversion reports I am using 2020.09.03 20:03 on Windows 10.
>
> The MWE below produces a column and a half of text, not balanced
> (despite the \setupcolumns [...balance=yes...] command. Also, the
> footnote *number* appears on the PDF, but the *text* of the footnote
> doesn't.
>
> However, when I use the online compiler (live.contextgarden.net,
> reported version 2020.06.30 17:30, older than mine), the footnote text
> *does* appear, though the columns are still not balanced.
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \usemodule[ipsum]
> \setupfootnotes[location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=8.5pt]
> \setupcolumns [n=2,balance=yes,blank=line]
>
> \starttext
> \chapter{Footnote Test  —  \contextversion}
> \startcolumns
>
> \ipsum
>
> Cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi in nulla posuere sollicitudin
> aliquam. Id aliquet risus feugiat in ante metus dictum at
> tempor.\footnote{Thor, A.U.: {\it Latin 101 for Dummies} (Rome,
> Dummies Pub., MCMLXXIX)}
>
> \ipsum[alternative=lines,n=20]
>
> \end columns
> \stoptext
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Question (1) : Why don't the columns balance, and how can I fix it?

Replace

     \end columns

with

     \stopcolumns

Wolfgang

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