Re: footnote control

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm>]

Hmm...maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me these commands have no effect 
on the in-text footnote marker; that they only apply to the footnote 
per se.

OK, I found two private messages from Hans from awhile back on this, 
before I got back to dealing with this.  The relevant parts are this:

>> And to use your example of Frutiger, what font selection command do 
>> you use to get Frutiger Ultra Black in a chapter title?  I still 
>> don't know how to use a medium small cap font in a document!
>
> \definefont[ChapterTitleFont][Frutiger-Ultra-Black]
>
> \setuphead[chapter][style=ChapterTitleFont]
>
> so, that's not for typescripts but for styles

And this:

> I'm not sure about hwo to deal with the footnote font; probably 
> composing a dedicate typeface is the best; of if it's only used for 
> symbols, it should be just a def and mapped onto a symbol (symb-*.tex)

So, if there was a command to set the footnote marker, I'd need to do a 
\definefont for a special "FootnoteFont."

However, there is no such command; right?  Seems like it might be 
useful.

I don't really understand the above comment, or how I operationalize 
it.  Can someone (Hans?) explain?

Bruce