I indent footnotes with: \setupnotation[footnote][ alternative=left, width=1em, numbercommand=\high] But that causes the following ugliness: The distance between the footnote-number and the footnote-entry is not always the same, it depends now on the length of the footnote-number – see the difference of footnotenumber 9 and 10. By default, that is not the case. How to get the default results with indentation? It is not only an ugliness, it causes problems, when you have really much footnotes, than (with more than 99 or even more than 999 footnotes) the footnotenumber, and the footnote-entry overlap.) Testing by: \setupnotation[footnote][ alternative=left, width=1em, numbercommand=\high] \starttext \dorecurse{100}{\footnote{Fußnote \recurselevel}} \stoptext Huseyin