[NTG-context] marginal note problems

Thank you for the help with headers---it worked. My marginal note problems continue: If I have a two-column text with margins on either side, is there a way for \inmargin{} or something like it to place text in the margin next to the column where it occurs? I haven't been able to avoid it overprinting the text in the opposite column. I tried using margin blocks but I couldn't get anywhere with them. Even: \startmarginblock test \stopmarginblock produces no output. And there is a new wrinkle: \setupinmargin[align=outer] ruins my footnotes. It causes the footnote marks that occur before the notes themselves to appear one margin-length left of where they should be, even if the overprint text.