Re: Regression in footnote / page break mechanism

Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jun 2026 01:34:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/6/2026 1:49 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Please have a look at MWE below.
> 
> With old ConTeXt  ver: 2026.01.08 23:30 LMTX  fmt: 2026.1.26
> there is the needed page break in tufte and second page starts with …
> 
> «fine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff and separate
> the sheep from the goats.1»
> 
> … with 1 being the footnote marker. At the bottom of the page is text of footnote 1.
> That's how it should be.
> 
> 
> With recent ConTeXt  ver: 2026.04.27 13:56 LMTX  fmt: 2026.6.5
> the tufte is not split at all. The footnote text now stands all alone on next page.
> 
> Help please!
> 
> Steffen
> 
> ---
> 
>   \setupnote[footnote][split=verystrict,scope=text]
> % \setupnote[footnote][split=verystrict,scope=page]
> 
>   \starttext
>   
>   \dorecurse{31}{\dots\par}
> 
>   \input{tufte}\footnote{\input{knuth}}
> 
>   \stoptext

we enable a catch for problematic bordercases, you can disable it with:

\insertoptions\zerocount


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