Hi Hans, maybe my problem was not clear enough. So please let me try it once more. The following example has main text in 2 columns and footnote text in 3 columns: \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumns \stoptext But as I also have to use section titles that span the columns (without causing pagebreaks) I need to use columnsets (like they are used in the following example): \definecolumnset[two][n=2] \definecolumnsetspan[two][n=2] \setupfootnotes[n=1,width=\hsize] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax} \startcolumnsetspan[two] \subsubsection{Spanning all columns without page break} \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse{10}{\input ward\footnote{\input tufte \relax}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext But I don't want the footnotes to be placed at the bottom of each column, I want them to be set in 3 columns at the bottom of the page (as shown in the columns example above). How can this be done? Steffen