Styling the footnote reference mark?

[stefano franchi]

I'd like to change the styling of the footnote reference mark, but only in the footnote itself (not in the main text). The standard is a superscript arab number, of course, and I'd like to

- add parenthesis around the number

- change the fontfamily to bold

- (perhaps) eliminate the superscript

I am using the footmisc package with the [para] option to have footnotes compacted into one single paragraph at the end of the page (to save space), and I find that the standard formatting makes it very hard to figure out where the footnote begins.

I found this code fragment on SX[1] which should come close to what I need:

\makeatletter%
\long\def\@makefntext#1{%
  \parindent 1em\noindent \hb@xt@ 1.8em{\hss \textsuperscript(\kern-0.1ex\@makefnmark\kern-0.1ex\textsuperscript)}#1}
\makeatother

but it seems no effect at all.

Help is appreciated.

Stefano

[1] http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23601/footnote-number-in-braces-parentheses

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[stefano franchi]

Stupid me! If I enter the code fragment *after* loading footmisc it works as expected....

Sorry for the noise

S.