As you can see in the results of processing the ConTeXt code below, the footnote gives an "Overfull \hbox" warning. And the overflow is always exactly 426.78743pt too wide (at least in my documents). ----------------------------------------------- \starttext A test\footnote{Just testing.} of footnotes. \stoptext ----------------------------------------------- Running `ConTeXt Full' on `test' with ``context --autopdf "test"'' This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.46.0-2009112722 \write18 enabled. (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.12.03 00:41 MKIV fmt: 2009.12.12 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) system : cont-fil loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-lua.tex) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkiv)) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) system : test.top loaded (test.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file test at line 1 Overfull \hbox (426.78743pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 2--2 [] fonts : resetting map file list {C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map} fonts : using map file: original-base {C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-base {C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler {C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map} fonts : using map file: original-public-lm {C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map} fonts : using map file: lm-math {C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map} fonts : using map file: lm-rm {C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} system : xmp data not flushed (needs luatex upgrade) !pages : flushing page, realpage 1, userpage 1 systems : end file test at line 3 system : cont-err loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) mkiv lua stats : used config path - C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf mkiv lua stats : used cache path - C:/context/tex/texmf-cache mkiv lua stats : input load time - 0.016 seconds mkiv lua stats : stored bytecode data - 196 modules, 48 tables, 244 chunks mkiv lua stats : node list callback tasks - 4 unique tasks, 3 created, 26 calls mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 25 nodes, 9 lists of 1408 mkiv lua stats : node memory usage - 20 glue_spec, 2 dir mkiv lua stats : used backend - pdf (backend for directly generating pdf output) mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns - en:us:pat:exc:2 mkiv lua stats : startup time - 0.438 seconds (including runtime option file processing) mkiv lua stats : callbacks - direct: 542, indirect: 3664, total: 4206 mkiv lua stats : interactive elements - 0 references, 1 destinations mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts - 49 files: lmmono10-regular.otf lmmono12-regular.otf lmmono8-regular.otf lmmono9-regular.otf lmroman10-bold.otf lmroman10-regular.otf lmroman12-bold.otf lmroman12-regular.otf lmroman5-bold.otf lmroman5-regular.otf lmroman6-regular.otf lmroman7-bold.otf lmroman7-regular.otf lmroman8-regular.otf lmroman9-bold.otf lmroman9-regular.otf lmsans10-regular.otf lmsans12-regular.otf lmsans8-regular.otf lmsans9-regular.otf eufb10.tfm eufb7.tfm eufm10.tfm eufm5.tfm eufm7.tfm msam10.tfm msam5.tfm msam7.tfm msbm10.tfm msbm5.tfm msbm7.tfm lmex10.tfm lmmi10.tfm lmmi12.tfm lmmi5.tfm lmmi7.tfm lmmi9.tfm lmmib10.tfm lmmib5.tfm lmmib7.tfm lmsy10.tfm lmsy5.tfm lmsy7.tfm lmsy9.tfm rm-lmr10.tfm rm-lmr12.tfm rm-lmr5.tfm rm-lmr7.tfm rm-lmr9.tfm mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 0.547 seconds mkiv lua stats : result saved in file - cont-en.pdf mkiv lua stats : luatex banner - this is luatex, version beta-0.46.0-2009112722 mkiv lua stats : control sequences - 29701 of 165536 mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 50 MB (ctx: 51 MB) mkiv lua stats : runtime - 1.250 seconds, 0 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 0.800 pages/second MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./test" MTXrun | pdfview methods: default okular xpdf, current method: default, MTX_PDFVIEW_METHOD=<unset> MTXrun | total runtime: 1.438 ConTeXt Full finished at Sun Dec 13 04:33:14 Thanks, Tad Ashlock