Dear Hans and Mikael, the sample below contains parallel subcolumn sets with footonotes. I cannot make them work properly and they are supposed to work. Is there something I’m missing in the sample. Many thanks for your help, Pablo \showframe\showgrid \starttext \setuplayout[grid=yes] \setupwhitespace[none] \definecolumnset [paral] [n=1] \definesubcolumnset[paral][L][1] \definesubcolumnset[paral][R][2] \page[even] \startcolumnset[paral] \dorecurse{25} {\startsubcolumnset[L] \startsubject[title=Zapf] \samplefile{zapf}\footnote{\samplefile{knuth}} \stopsubject \stopsubcolumnset \startsubcolumnset[R] \startsubject[title=Knuth] \samplefile{knuth}\footnote{\samplefile{zapf}} \stopsubject \stopsubcolumnset \flushsubcolumnsets[spread]} \stopcolumnset \stoptext