Further to comments the other day, attached is a package that implements some simple functionality of the bigfoot package. It seems to work for my purposes. Unfortunately, in developing it, I realized that we do not yet have counters for custom insets. So this will have to be on the radar for 1.7.
Richard
#\DeclareLyXModule{Bigfoot} #DescriptionBegin #Adds some additional footnote insets. Based upon the bigfoot package. #DescriptionEnd Format 11 InsetLayout Custom:FootnoteRoman LyXType custom LatexName footnoteR LatexType command Decoration classic Font Size Small EndFont MultiPar true LabelString "Roman Note" Preamble \usepackage{bigfoot} \DeclareNewFootnote{R}[roman] \MakeSorted{footnoteR} EndPreamble End InsetLayout Custom:FootnoteAlph CopyStyle Custom:FootnoteRoman Decoration classic LatexName footnoteA LabelString "Alpha Note" Preamble \usepackage{bigfoot} \DeclareNewFootnote{A}[alph] \MakeSorted{footnoteA} EndPreamble End