Wolfgang Schuster
This is easy:
\setupnote[footnote][location=text]
\setuptexttexts[margin][][{\framed[frame=off,offset=none,align=low,height=\textheight,width=broad]{\placenotes[footnote]}}]
%\showframe
\starttext text\footnote{one} text\footnote{two} text\footnote{\input tufte\par} text \stoptext
Thanks for the snippet. Unfortunately, the footnotes don't seem to make it onto the page though. Would this be due to using ConTeXt MKII by any chance? If not, I'd rather not change my current texlive installation just now. log-output is attached. Thanks for your time, Elias This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (format=cont-en 2010.7.29) 29 JUL 2010 15:05 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. (/opt/tl/2009/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) **con-footnote.tex \emergencyend (./con-footnote.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.08.19 17:10 MKII fmt: 2010.7.29 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkii)) (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkii)) (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-one.tex (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-one.mkii))) system : con-footnote.top loaded (./con-footnote.top) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:2 nl->ec:ec->2->2:2 us-> ec:ec->3->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->4->3:3 de->ec:ec->5->3:3 da->ec:ec->6->2:2 sv->ec:ec->7->2:2 gb->ec:ec->8->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->9->2:2 fr->ec:ec->1 0->2:2 es->ec:ec->11->2:2 ca->ec:ec->12->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->13->2:2 it-
ec:ec->14->2:2 la->ec:ec->15->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->16->2:2 pt->ec:ec->17 ->2:2 ro->ec:ec->18->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->19->2:2 pl->ec:ec->20->2:2 pl->qx:qx->21- 2:2 cs->il2:il2->22->2:2 cs->ec:ec->23->2:2 sk->il2:il2->24->2:2 sk->ec:ec->25 ->2:2 hr->ec:ec->26->2:2 sl->ec:ec->27->2:2 tr->ec:ec->28->2:2 agr->agr:agr->30 ->2:2 fi->ec:ec->31->2:2 hu->ec:ec->32->2:2 ru->t2a:t2a->34->2:2 uk->t2a:t2a->3 5->3:3 loaded specials : dvips loaded \openout3 = `con-footnote.tui'.
\openout0 = `con-footnote-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. systems : system commands are disabled language : language en is active specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.mkii specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) (./con-footnote.tuo) systems : begin file con-footnote at line 7 references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:1] references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:2] references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:3] (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/tufte.tex) fonts : resetting map file list {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map} fonts : using map file: original-base {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-base {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-public-lm {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map} fonts : using map file: lm-ec {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-ec.map} fonts : using map file: lm-math {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map} fonts : using map file: lm-rm {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map} (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-def.mkii) (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii) [1.1] systems : end file con-footnote at line 9 system : cont-err loaded (/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1045 strings out of 457152 16610 string characters out of 2541996 4687853 words of memory out of 7118750 40822 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000 140365 words of font info for 63 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000 396 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 48i,20n,59p,274b,757s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s {/opt/tl/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc} pdfTeX warning: pdftex: no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet! Output written on con-footnote.pdf (1 page, 43544 bytes). PDF statistics: 17 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607) 11 compressed objects within 1 object stream 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000) 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)