Footnotes

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Basic Footnotes

For basic footnotes, simply use \footnote[reference]{footnote text}. The reference is optional, and can be used to refer to the same footnote again with \note[reference]. For example:

This\footnote[footA](Or that, if you prefer.} is a sentence with a footnote\footnote{Actually,
two footnotes; this one and footnote \note[footA].}.  

Thanks to Oblomov, it's also possible to use footnotes in footnotes, as in this example.

This\footnote(Or that\footnote{Or possibly even the other.}, if you prefer.} is a sentence
with a footnote.  

Footnote Numbering

You can setup the exact behaviour of footnotes as usual with \setupfootnotes. For example, to use footnotes with standard footnote symbols (which ConTeXt has defined as the conversion "set 2"), with the footnote counter resetting on each page, one would use the following:

\setupfootnotes[way=bypage, conversion=set 2]

This produces the the following footnotes, using the text of the previous example.

Alternate Footnote Locations

The \setupfootnotes command offers some options for the placement of footnotes; for instance, the location=columns option places the footnotes in a single column (of a multicolumn page) rather than across the whole page. The location=text option places the footnotes in text at a location specified by \placefootnotes; this can be easily used to create endnotes.

\setupfootnotes[location=text]
This\footnote[footA](Or that, if you prefer.} is a sentence with a footnote\footnote{Actually,
two footnotes; this one and footnote \note[footA].}.  
\placefootnotes
This is some text after the footnotes.

Footnotes in Floats

If you need footnotes in floats (figures, tables) you need to define local footnotes. ((example?))