Hi,

Is it possible to mix two-column and single-column footnotes?

Here's my use case.  I have two types of footnotes: 

1) short one- or two-word terms

2) long descriptions and notes

On some pages there are a lot of "short" footnotes which take up a lot of space at the bottom of the page.  I'd like to typeset them in 2 or 3 columns.  But then the "long" footnotes had better stay in one column.

See below for desired input and output.

Sample input:

\definenote[shortfootnote][...,n=3]

\definenote[longfootnote][...,n=1]

\starttext

\shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short}

\longfootnote{This is a long footnote which spans the entire width of the page.}

\shortfootnote{short}\shortfootnote{short}

\longfootnote{Another "long" footnote.}

\longfootnote{Note that footnotes 5, 6 used only two out of three available columns.}

\stoptext

Desired output:

__________

1 short          2 short       3 short

4 This is a long footnote which spans

the entire width of the page.

5 short          6 short

7 Another "long" footnote.

8 Note that footnotes 5, 6 used only

two out of three available columns.