Here is an example from my webpage. This example requires that you type in each footnote manually, and it then converts the it to a letter: === \setupfootnotes[way=bytext, conversion=characters] % set the number manually % the next footnote will be *3* \setnumber[footnote]{2} The twelve labors of Hercules\footnote{Hercules had to perform 12 near-impossible tasks to become a god} were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; === However, I think you want just to change where the footnote starts. Hans sent me this about 3 weeks ago. I think it works, though I have not tested it. \setupnumber[footnote][start=45] test \footnote{test} test Paul On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:08:59AM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

From: Idris Samawi Hamid To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:08:59 -0600 Subject: [NTG-context] superior footnotes

Dear posse,

1. With footnotes, is there yet a way to define the starting numeral-mark? Say, I want my first footnote incremented so that the first notemark is , not `1' then `2', but `1234' then `1235', etc.

2. I tried a workaround:

======================= \defineconversion[set1234][1234] \setupfootnotes [conversion=set 1234] =======================

but a spurious numeral `1' gets typeset alongside the notemark. What am I missing?

Finally, the ConTeXt footnote mechanism does not (afaik) take into account superior numerals. We need a setup option, e.g.

======================= \setupfootnotes [numeral=superior]%inferior, normal, with % normal as default =======================

to cut off the mechanism for automatically raising and reducing the size of the numeral (\high I presume). Yes, there is the empty (text)command=<empty> trick, but to use superior numerals all this should not be necessary.

Thnx as always Idris

============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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