> Am 13.08.2021 um 08:43 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>:
> 
> On 8/13/2021 12:32 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>>> Am 13.08.2021 um 00:03 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context 
>>> <ntg-context@ntg.nl>:
>>> 
>>> On 8/12/2021 10:01 PM, Jano Kula via ntg-context wrote:
>>>> Hello Hraban!
>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 15:24 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context 
>>>> <ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> wrote:
>>>>    Footnotes still don’t work in columnsets (latest LMTX):
>>>>    - they stay in one column (I’d prefer them over the whole width of
>>>>    the text area)
>>>>    - they often get overwritten by main text
>>>>    Is there a workaround?
>>>> I had to switch back to mkiv. It's on Hans' agenda, but with lots of 
>>>> interferencies there will be no quick fix.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> good old mkiv ... so it serves a purpose! i would be more worried when you 
>>> went back to mkii
>> ;D
>> Unfortunately I can’t go back to MkIV with the CG journal since some 
>> articles use LMTX features.
>> I’ll probably find some ugly hack to work around the issues...
> A lot has to do with defaults. We have several multicolumn mechanisms an 
> cnotes themselves can also come in columns and it's nto easy to have a setup 
> that suits them all, so each mechanism has additional settings. I'm still not 
> sure how to deal with this because there are conflicting demands. So, one 
> ends up in 'fix this setup' 'break that setup' situations (basically it means 
> that we need to setup things on an extra axis: the kind of otr used). It's a 
> bit the price we pay for configurability.

Would it be viable to use columnset areas for footnotes? Then the user could 
configure themselves where they should go, how many columns they should span 
etc.

Hraban
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