I'Ve been trying dozens of combinations to try to reduce the vertical space between the a table and the local footer to some items in the table, but have just been running into a wall. Here is a minimal example. For my application there is just too much space between the bottom of the table and the footnote. That is the problem. Also is there a more elegant way to get the footnote aligned under the table to the left side. I am using narrower to force it to postion. This doesn't show up right in the minimal, but it works. Help in solving this would be greatly appreciated. %---------------- \defineconversion[fnsym][\m{\dagger},\m{*},\m{**},\m{***}] % footnote header symbols \starttext \subject{Subject Name} \blank \startlocalfootnotes % [conversion=set fnsym] \setupnotation[footnote][numberconversion=fnsym,rule=off] % change footnote symbols \midaligned { \placetable[here,none][]{} { \setuptables[bodyfont=10pt,after=\nowhitespace,spaceafter=none] \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \VL X-ITEM \VL \VL$\oplus$ \footnote[hanzi]{Traditional Characters} \VL \VL$\oplus$ \note[hanzi]\VL\VL$\oplus$ \VL \VL$\oplus$ \VL\MR \VL Y-ITEM \VL \VL$\oplus$ \VL \VL$\oplus$ \VL \VL$\oplus$ \VL \VL$\oplus$ \VL\MR \HL \stoptable } } \setupnarrower[left=2.5cm] % to align footnote under the table \startnarrower[left] \placelocalfootnotes[here] \stopnarrower \stoplocalfootnotes \setupnotation[footnote][numberconversion=n,rule=on] % restore footnotes to global \stoptext %----------------