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,
Am 29.03.2013 um 10:07 schrieb hwit...@gmail.com:
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> It didn't work. Either with texexec or with context.
>
> Here is a simpler test case
> start
> % basic test to change footnotes bullet to a symbol
> % basice test to change footnotes bullet to a symbol
> %