The manual describes a way to set footnotes in columns:
\setupfootnotes[n=number] (Context: the manual (Nov. 12, 2001), pp.
101-2)
That has caused errors for me in the 2008-10-23 or 2008-10-31 releases.
mjg
TEST DOCUMENT:
\setupfootnotes[n=2]
\starttext
First sentence here.\footnote{Note one.} Second sentence here.
\footnote{Note two.} Third sentence here.\footnote{Note three.}
\stoptext
ERROR MESSAGE
ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.1 int: english/
english
[snip]
fonts : using map file: original-public-lm
{/Users/michaelgreen/Applications/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/
pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map}
! Missing } inserted.
<inserted text>
}
<to be read again>
\unvbox
\doplacenoteinserts ...ing \unvcopy \else \unvbox
\fi
\currentnoteins \fi \s...
\next3 ...oprocessnotes {\doplacenoteinserts }{#1}
\doprocesscommaitem
<argument> \relax footnote,
endnote,linenote
\doprocesscommalist ...aitem \gobbleoneargument #1
,]\relax \global
\advance ...
...
l.7 \stoptext
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