Quoting Horacio Suarez
This is an exaple, I hope it´s ok. If you coment/uncoment one of the \dorecurse lines at a time you will see. Even if there is enough place to place the foonotes, in the first case the notes jumps to a new page.
This seems to be a bug in start/stop columns. From what I remember, columns causes a page break if sum of the two columns is greater than the page length. Here is an example. \starttext \setupfootnotes[location={none}] \dorecurse{10}{ \chapter Capitulo1--\recurselevel{} \startcolumns % Aca va texto\footnote{foot uno} \dorecurse{\recurselevel}{\input tufte\par} % Aca más texto\footnote{foot dos} \stopcolumns \section Notas \input tufte } \stoptext This may help others to help what is happening. Aditya