superior footnotes

[Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu>]

Dear posse,

1. With footnotes, is there yet a way to define the starting numeral-mark? 
Say, I want my first footnote incremented so that the first notemark is , not 
`1' then `2', but `1234' then `1235', etc.

2. I tried a workaround:

=======================
\defineconversion[set1234][1234]
\setupfootnotes [conversion=set 1234]
=======================

but a spurious numeral `1' gets typeset alongside the notemark. What am I 
missing?

Finally, the ConTeXt footnote mechanism does not (afaik) take into account 
superior numerals. We need a setup option, e.g.

=======================
\setupfootnotes [numeral=superior]%inferior, normal, with 
% normal as default
=======================

to cut off the mechanism for automatically raising and reducing the size of 
the numeral (\high I presume). Yes, there is the empty (text)command=<empty> 
trick, but to use superior numerals all this should not be necessary.

Thnx as always
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523