Reducing the size of footnote marks in text

Question

I'm trying to change the size of footnote marker in the text, making it smaller, but no success.

Here is what I have in preamble: (slightly changes example from memoir class which I'm using)

\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\hbox{\textsuperscript{\tiny{\@thefnmark}}}}

but at compilation time all I get is

l.16 \renewcommand{\@makefnmark}
                                {\hbox{\textsuperscript{\tiny{\@thefnmark}}}}
? 

and no effect.

What am I doing wrong? Is there other way to explicitly change the size of footnote marker from normal text size to smaller?

Answer 1

This works for me, both for memoir and article class.

\documentclass{memoir}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\hbox{\textsuperscript{\tiny{\@thefnmark}}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
Some text.\footnote{A footnote.}
\end{document}