Numbered Footnotes

Question

I want to use numbered footnotes instead of lettered. I changed the “Show Callers in the Text:” to numbers but am still getting alphabetic letters. Is there another setting that needs to be changed?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Linda,
I’m not sure how you are entering your numbers, but when I clicked on “Show Callers in the Text” and entered the numbers as: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8… then they appeared correctly for me. Make sure there are no spaces in the list.

As always, I’d recommend checking to see if there are updates to PTXPrint.

Answer 2

Sorry for such a late reply. In terms of the TeX, there is a command that can be given:
\NumericCallers{f} (or {x}) However, it only seems to be effective if there has not been any ‘listed’ callers defined, and that seems to be unavoidable from the user interface. For one project, I’m seeing:

\AutoCallers{f}{*,†,‡,¶,§,⁜,⁑,※,⁂}
\AutoCallers{x}{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,θ,u,v,w,x,y,z,ʒ}

around line 170 in the .tex file, which is a long way before ptxprint-mods.tex is included (around line 488).
We can, therefore, ‘unset’ the list of autocallers, and then the numeric callers should work:

\expandafter\let\csname callers-x\endcsname\relax
\NumericCallers{x}

And it does:

But (at least with no change in font) the callers end up a bit confusing, if you ask me:

(change the callers-x and {x} to callers-f and {f} if you want to override footnotes.)