Hi Hans, When \setupnote is called in preamble footnotes are placed wrong. %\setuppapersize[A4] \setupnote[footnote][] \starttext Text\footnote{Note}. \stoptext This happens because \dimen\currentnoteins is set to 1pt (the current value of \textheight before \starttext). The problem is the following setting in page-app.mkiv \setuplayout [fittingpage] [\c!width=\d_page_fitting_width, \c!height=\d_page_fitting_height, \c!location=\v!middle] which changes the \textheight dimension (from the value set in page-lay.mkiv). Merging \definelayout and \setuplayout from \definelayout [fittingpage] [\v!page] \setuplayout [fittingpage] [\c!width=\d_page_fitting_width, \c!height=\d_page_fitting_height, \c!location=\v!middle] to \definelayout [fittingpage] [\v!page] [\c!width=\d_page_fitting_width, \c!height=\d_page_fitting_height, \c!location=\v!middle] solves the problem. Wolfgang