Dear list, motivated by a question on TeX.SX I wanted to typeset multicolumn text with multicolumn footnotes. However, on the first page the distance between the columns and the footnote area is way too large. Occurs in TL2017 and latest beta. Also, is there something to influence the alignment inside the footnotes more aggressively. There are a couple of bad boxes. Is it possible to turn of balancing for the footnote columns? Cheers, Henri --- \setupnote [footnote] [n=4, rule=no, frame=on, frameoffset=1ex] \setupnotation [footnote] [alternative=hanging, align={raggedright,verytolerant}] \setupcolumns [rule=on] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \input Knuth\footnote{FreeBSD tire ses origines de l'UNIX de Berkeley.} \input ward\footnote{This does not seem to be implemented yet.} \input hawking\footnote{Left, right (raggedleft, raggedright).} \input Knuth\footnote{Distance between columns bad hyphenation.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input Knuth\footnote{FreeBSD tire ses origines de l'UNIX de Berkeley.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input hawking\footnote{Left, right (raggedleft, raggedright).} \input Knuth\footnote{Distance between columns bad hyphenation.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \input ward\footnote{Draw a line between the columns. Default is off.} \stopcolumns \stoptext