[NTG-context] formatting \note output

Though I have asked this question before and there was no response, I thought I would ask the following once more (before going through my source files and making the changes by hand). Does anyone know how to modify or adapt \note so that the output is a footnote number in normal/body text format---e.g., “(ref.\ \note [lemur])” becomes “(ref.\ 9)”---rather than a superscripted numeral? Thanks for any help. Alan