Hi, Just in case some one is interested in detailed footnote problems: In the last time I was fiddling a lot on the problem of setting up footnotes - the task was to have different defined font and interlinespace sizes for text as well as for footnotes. The first solution that I constructed with commands and keywords from the manual (and etexshow) seemed to give the desired result: \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=15pt] \definefont [FNfont][Serif at 8pt] \def\FNstyle{\FNfont\setupinterlinespace[line=15pt]} \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=] \setupfootnotedefinition[style=\FNstyle] \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \stoptext But it just worked OK for *normal* sizes. When set to extreme values it begun to show strange phenomena (see the distances over and under each first line of a footnote): \setupbodyfont[4pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=45pt] \definefont [FNfont][Serif at 4.5pt] \def\FNstyle{\FNfont\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]} \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=] \setupfootnotedefinition[style=\FNstyle] \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \stoptext After re-combining the different option and command for setupfootnotes and setupfootnotedefinition without improvement, I started to search through the source files and found the very interesting command \setfootnotebodyfont. With this command a setup can be written that works, finally: \setupbodyfont[4pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=45pt] \definefont [FNfont][Serif at 4.5pt] \def\setfootnotebodyfont{\FNfont\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]} \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=] \setupfootnotedefinition[style=\FNfont] \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \stoptext Maybe this helps someone. Steffen P.S. If there is still need for improvement, please correct.