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I’m trying to reproduce some old typography somewhat faithfully — a German article from 1925. It marks all footnotes using a number followed by a right parenthesis, similar to what’s described in the question Footnote with right parenthesis and produced by lockstep’s answer, except that only the number is superscripted — the parenthesis is at normal size and alignment, in both the body text and footer.

  • In body text:

  • In footer:

I’ve tried adapting that earlier answer, but it looks like this will require going deeper into the footnote mechanism, and I can’t quite figure it out. The body-text part is easy, as shown in the following MWE (done inline, but obviously could be put into a macro); getting it in the footer as well is what I’m stuck on. I include hyperref since it’s the one package I’m using which interacts with the footnote mechanism.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[english,main=german]{babel}


\begin{document}
Etwas etwas etwas\footnote{Etwas mehr}) noch etwas.
\end{document}
Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
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  • Please show us what you have tried; your MWE just uses the regular \footnote. – Peter Wilson Nov 28 '22 at 19:49
  • @PeterWilson: I’ve tried redefining \footnotemark following the linked answer by lockstep, but everything inside \footnotemark is superscripted. So my MWE using plain \footnote really is the closest I’ve been able to get — it demonstrates the exact desired result in the body text (very straightforwardly), and for the footer, I haven’t figured out how to add anything placed with the footnote marker (not the footnote text) but not superscripted. – Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine Nov 28 '22 at 20:15

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Does this do what you want?

% fnprob.tex  SE 666624

\documentclass{article}


\makeatletter
\renewcommand{@makefnmark}{\hbox{@textsuperscript{\normalfont@thefnmark}})}


\makeatother


\begin{document}


Text\footnote{A footnote}
\end{document}
Peter Wilson
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