From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15714 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ishamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: fighting with footnotes Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:01 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4101B946@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089971427 32427 80.91.224.253 (16 Jul 2004 09:50:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 16 11:50:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlPM0-0000GX-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:50:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E8A12775; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:50:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02110-06-4; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781D612784; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC771276C for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:07:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27047-03 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:07:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.acns.ColoState.EDU (unknown [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217391276B for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:07:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.acns.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i6FE72k1244172 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:02 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i6FE71w649940 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:01 -0600 X-WebMail-UserID: ishamid Original-To: X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002247, 00002264 X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:26:13 +0200 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15714 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15714 Dear posse, I am having trouble with footnotes. For an article, I want some footnotes to be symbolized by \ast, \dag, etc, but without affecting the numbering of regular footnotes. For example, the title of article may have a footnote symbolized by \ast, but the first footnote in the main text should still be symbolized by `1' (then `2', etc). I tried localfootnotes but I could not get them placed in the footer at the bottom of the page. [location=3Dpage] did not help. Related question: can't I just specify a footnote outside the counting mechanism with any symbol I want at any point in the text, without disturbing the regular counted footnotes? I'm also confused by the conversion key. page 93 of the documentation reads: "With the variable conversion you set up the type of numbering. You may even use your own character, for example an emdash (keyed in as ---=C2=AD)." But if I do, e.g., conversion=3D{---}, TeX complains of course. What am I missing? Related questions: Where are the conversion keys set 2, set 3, etc. documented? How can I reset the numbering if I make local changes? For example, I am using regular default footnotes, then I switch to conversion=3Dset 2, then I want to reset to the default footnotes without losing my numbering. I thought that [n=3D0] etc. might help but that key seems to affect the paragraph formatting of the footnotes, not the numbering. I tried using \start-\stop but that does not isolate the counting mechanism apparently. Fighting TeX is really frustrating sometimes, and I'm sure the answers are really simple... Best Idris