Re: Footnote Size problem

[mp pjd@xxxxxxxx]

Various questions and answers:::

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(a) Foot-(or end-)note indicators (which won't necessarily be numbers, of
course) apparently perform like any other superscript characters so far as
size and elevation above the text baseline; i.e., the note indicator obey
the same formatting instructions given for any superscript character.
(b) Both the height (above text baseline) and the size of super-(or
sub-)script characters are governed by the LH default. This default is
specified in the file XwSet.dfl in XyWin; in XyDOS 4 it's Settings.dfl.

In my XwSet.dfl (i.e. for XyWin) this relevant lines read as follows:
  >; LH (low-high) sets super/subscript: percent size, percent up,
percent down
  >;DF LH=olim 50,117,22 (changed 28-2-97 to 65,55,35)
  >;DF LH=65,55,35 (changed 4-4-97 to 78,60,35)
  >DF LH=78,60,35
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etc, etc, etc

Someone else wrote
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>A slightly simpler way to control the size is, instead of point
>size commands, to assign them to two styles, say 1 and 2, and do
>US 1 before the footnote and US 2 after. You can always redefine
>the two styles without changing the style deltas.
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I must be missing something. In my printer definition file I can
indicate for any typeface (e.g. PT=1) that the Superscript (≪MDSU≫)
is not only whatever SIZE I want, but any FONT I want, and I have played
with those numbers in the past (although not for footnote numbers). If
in fact footnpote numbering uses the normal superscript, then changes
should work there too.

OF COURSE -- I am still using XY 3. Maybe this is one of the simple
flexibiltiies of 3 plus that was lost when XY became 4 ??

regards
-pjd

SAMPLE FROM MY PRINTER FILE FOR LASERJET 4L

;
PT=181
MD NM+CGTIMES10
MD BO+CGTIMES10+HPBOLD
MD UL+CGTIMES10+UNDERLINE
MD RV+12COURIER+FORMS
MD BU+CGTIMES10+HPBOLD+UNDERLINE
MD BR+CGTIMES10+HPITAL
MD SU+CGTIMES8+SUPERSCRIPT
MD SD+CGTIMES8+SUBSCRIPT
MD 30+CGTIMES10+HPITAL+HPBOLD
;
;Superscript changed 97/03/11
;
PT-182,43
etc

SUPERSCRIPT is defined later
with an AT:SUPERSCRIPT table

The pertinent line in the above table could have
been

MD SU+COURIER8+BOLD+SUPERSCRIPT

or whatever.