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Thnx a million. Things are much clearer now.


> [some time ago i sent you a some definable footnote macros, a sort of
> prelude to your critical edition project]

Yes, I must get back to that stuff soon, I've been seriously distracted by
having to do "real" philosophy. But real soon now...

> >Unrelated:
> >
> >Canw I make an entire document default to oldstyle numbers? (Probably
> >not, since Knuth mapped these glyphs in a strange way).
>
> you can, but you should construct a virtual font for that

I'll bug Alan Hoenig about this:-)

Best
Idris