How do you change the font style of individual footnote references?

Question

For the book style I'm currently working on, any footnote references in text (superscripted numbers) are supposed to be the same font as the phrase of text they occur in (bold, italic, roman, etc.). However, I cannot find any way to change the font attributes of the numbers for a footnote. They appear to be stuck in the default parapgraph font, whatever that might be.

I've got a workaround of simply putting superscripted numbers in text and then throwing the actual footnote at the end of the paragraph, tagged with white so it doesn't print. This is inelegant on many different levels, including have to manually check for changed footnote references if any footnotes are added or removed, thus altering the numbering sequence.

Any ideas?

Anonymous · Answer

Footnote references in FM do take on the same style as the paragraph tag they're placed in, you're correct. AFAIK there isn't a way to change this behavior.

Short of doing the hackaround as you've described, I don't think there's any other alternative.

Doing it as you've described would have a considerable impact on FM's pagination, wouldn't it, because FM's pagination would be more likely to flow the footnotes from one page to the next according to the white-at-end-of-paragraph position, rather than the inline position that it really should use. [FM's footnote handling must be one of the all-time "10 most egregious" bad implementations that users struggle with all the time...]

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