[XeTeX] Footnotes

[Jonathan Kew]

On 24 Mar 2005, at 8:44 pm, Charles Doherty wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
>
> Thank you for previous help. I am using XeTeX with ConTeXt. I have a 
> small file using the font Gentium. I am quoting Sanskrit words in 
> Latin transliteration and I can get all the diacritical marks just 
> fine. However when I use the footnote command the footnote is set in 
> what seems to be computer modern not Gentium. It is the same if I use 
> Hoefler. If I switch to Gentium font (say at 8pt) within the footnote 
> braces I get the footnote set in Gentium. This is a chore if every 
> footnote has to have the font switch. Am I doing something very silly? 
> Any advice would be appreciated. The more I use your programme the 
> more I enjoy it.

This, I think, is really a ConTeXt question rather than a XeTeX 
question; it must have separate font specification for footnotes from 
that used for the main text.

I hope one of the ConTeXt users here (Adam?) will be able to help, as I 
don't know anything about it.

JK