At 05:57 AM 8/22/2005, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think like this:
\defineconversion[starred][*]
\setupfootnotes[conversion=starred]
Untested, but should work
It doesn't quite work.
If you give a single argument to \defineconversion, it expects the
conversion to be a command that takes an argument. Since you haven't taken
an argument, the number gets typeset after the asterisk. Also, the
asterisk needs to be in math mode to get positioned correctly, I
think. Correcting for both of those gives this, which works:
\def\gobble#1{}
\defineconversion[starred][\mathematics{*}\gobble]
\setupfootnotes[conversion=starred]
However, that's somewhat of a hack; better is to set up the footnotes to
reset the counter on each page, and then use one of ConTeXt's predefined
conversion sets that starts with an asterisk but follows it with other
symbols. That way, if one changes the file so that there end up being two
footnotes on the same page, they won't both get asterisks (which would be
confusing).
That can be done quite simply, like so:
\setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=set 2]
Set 2 uses a \dag and then \ddag as the symbols after *, which is fairly
standard typographic practice. If you prefer to do a sequence of *, **,
***, and **** instead, try something like this:
\defineconversion
[asterisks]
[\mathematics{*},
\mathematics{**},
\mathematics{***},
\mathematics{****},
\mathematics{\dag},
\mathematics{\ddag}]
\setupfootnotes[way=bypage,conversion=asterisks]
- Brooks
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