Thank you both, Wolfgang and Hans for helping me be able to use user specified footnote bulltes.
I am using it in a table which I encapsulate with localfootnotes. I call \setupnotation[footnote][numberconversion=fnsym] % change footnote symbols after the startlocal, and it works in the table, but the use of symbols persists after teh stoplocalfootnotes is issued. However if I undo, just before the end as \setupnotation[footnote][numberconversion=n] then all works well and the counts carry on correctly. Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________