> well ... if anybody has some good ideas what footnotes are suppose to
> do within balanced text ... please tell me (options not dogmata :-)
> 
> another possibility would be to handle them like multicol does, ie 
> pagewide or offpage, e.g. in the margin.

I'd some application where on all left-hand pages (in one chapter) text
were typeset with 'footnote marks' and on the right-hand page ***all***
corresponding 'footnotes' from the left pages were typeset.

Maybe you can include endnote style(s) then there's no need for an extra
package.

BTW does there exist an option that, e.g., suppresses a float in column
2?

Ulrich