Am 20.01.2012 um 18:16 schrieb Wagner Macedo:

> Hello,
> 
> Searching for a \thanks equivalent command on ConTeXt, I ended up on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Thanks.
> 
> But I didn't like that solution, because the author footnote is placed on a new area instead the same as text footnotes.
> 
> So I made a simple solution, that the author footnotes is placed in the same area and doesn't interfere on real counter. I want here to share my solution, below you can see it.
> 
> \definestartstop[author]
>   [before={\savenumber[footnote]
>     \resetnumber[footnote]
>     \start
>     \let\thanks\footnote
>     \setupfootnotes[numberconversion=set 2]},
>    after={\stop
>     \restorenumber[footnote]}]
> 
> It can be used as that:
> 
> \startauthor
>   Wagner Macedo\thanks{Brazilian citizen}
> \stopauthor
> 
> Of course, I could did a \author command, but I generally prefer to use start/stop blocks.
> 
> What do you think? This could be improved?

\starttext

The Author\footnote[+]{This is a regular footnote without the number.}

Another sample text\footnote{A footnote with a number}.

\stoptext

Wolfgang