Re: customizing footnote numbers

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:58:42PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way to manually set the number of a footnote rather than
>>letting ConTeXt determining it? Something that works in the same way as
>>\page[25]? 
>>
>>For example, I might want to start footnote numbering at 1 at each
>>chapter, *but I won't be using traditional ConTeXt divisions.* 
>>
>>I've been searching the web and it seems that LaTeX has a way to reset
>>counters, but I can't get this to work in ConTeXt. 
> 
> 
> Answering my own email. I've had a look at core-not.tex, and I see a lot
> of definitions such as \internalfootreference. I've tried setting some
> of these myself with no luck. But it seems if I can just figure out the
> right definition and the way to set it, I should be able to insert the
> type of footnote I want. 
> 
> On the other hand, isn't there a way to just enter text in for your
> footnote marker, and totally bypass any automatic numbering?
\starttext

test \footnote{test} test
\setupnumber[footnote][start=45]
test \footnote{test} test
\setnumber[footnote]{99}
test \footnote{test} test
\setupnumber[footnote][way=bysection,start=0]
test \footnote{test} test

\section{test}
test \footnote{test} test
test \footnote{test} test

\section{test}
test \footnote{test} test
test \footnote{test} test

\stoptext


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