Deane Harder wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to have a star symbol (*) as a footnote symbol rather than > numbers (because I use superscript numbers for literature citings). From > an earlier posting I've learned that > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@textsuperscript{*}} in the preamble would do > the trick. Which it does - as indicator in the main text. The footnote, > however, still has a number '1' as symbol. I use the Mac version of Lyx > and have tried it with 1.4.4 as well as 1.5 beta 3. What am I missing > here? > > Thanks > > Deane Harder
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc} in the preamble. Look the footmisc package. It gives a lot of options for footnotes. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org