Typically when multiple footnote apparatus are used, one is used on a per page basis, and one is used with a more global numbering system (per chapter or document). Symbol footnote systems are almost exclusively implemented on a per page basis, since there is usually a very small set of symbols, and so they are inappropriate for document or chapter wide scope. One fairly standard way to implement this in LaTeX is to use the bigfoot
package, This package implements the manyfoot
package with some improvements, and you should consult the manyfoot
documentation for how to use it.
So here's an example of how to do this. The first example uses pdfLaTeX, but lacks the clefs. I have not managed to find either of the clef symbols in any Type1 font. But many fonts contain the accidentals, so they can be implemented easily. By design, manyfoot
separates the two different footnote series, so you can't have interspersed numeric and symbol footnotes. The second example simply uses the same method described in my previous answer, but adds the bigfoot
code for the different numbering systems.
pdfLaTeX with just sharp and flat symbols
% compile with pdfLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{bigfoot} % See the manyfoot package for documentation
\usepackage[symbol*]{footmisc}
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}
\DefineFNsymbols*{music}{{$\sharp$}{$\flat$}*{$\dag$}}
\DeclareNewFootnote{A}
\renewcommand{\thefootnoteA}{\fnsymbol{footnoteA}}
\MakePerPage{footnoteA}
\setfnsymbol{music}
\begin{document}
Some text\footnoteB{A regular footnote.} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}. Some text\footnoteB{Another regular footnote} Some text\footnoteA{Another symbol footnote} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}.
\end{document}

LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX with clef symbols added
% compile with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[]{bigfoot} % See the manyfoot package for documentation
\usepackage[symbol*]{footmisc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\musicfont[Scale=MatchUppercase]{Free Serif}
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textmusic}{\musicfont}
\newcommand*\clefG{\textmusic{\char"1D122}}
\newcommand*\clefF{\textmusic{\char"1D11E}}
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}
\DeclareNewFootnote{A}
\DefineFNsymbols*{music}{\clefG\clefF{\textmusic{\sharp}}{\textmusic{\flat}}}
\setfnsymbol{music}
\renewcommand{\thefootnoteA}{\fnsymbol{footnoteA}}
\MakePerPage{footnoteA}
\begin{document}
Some text\footnoteB{A regular footnote.} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}. Some text\footnoteB{Another regular footnote} Some text\footnoteA{Another symbol footnote} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}
\end{document}

pdfLaTeX using images for the clefs
If you really need to use pdfLaTeX and require the clef symbols, then you could insert them as graphics. To do this I made images of the clefs using the standalone
package and LuaLaTeX. Here's the document for the treble clef. This produced a file clefF.pdf
.
\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Free Serif}
\newcommand*\clefG{\char"1D122}
\newcommand*\clefF{\char"1D11E}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{60}{60}\selectfont
\clefF
\end{document}
For the bass clef, I used the same procedure, but I also used the pdfcrop
script to crop the resulting image, since the default crop used by standalone
didn't seem to crop completely. So after I created clefG.pdf
I used the command pdfcrop clefG.pdf
. This produced clefG-crop.pdf
which I renamed back to be clefG.pdf
. Now we can define commands to insert the clef images as symbols:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareRobustCommand\clefG{\includegraphics[height=1.5ex]{clefG}}
\DeclareRobustCommand\clefF{\includegraphics[height=2ex]{clefF}}
\usepackage{bigfoot}
\usepackage[symbol*]{footmisc}
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}
\DefineFNsymbols*{music}{{\clefG}{\clefF}{$\sharp$}{$\flat$}}
\DeclareNewFootnote{A}
\renewcommand{\thefootnoteA}{\fnsymbol{footnoteA}}
\setfnsymbol{music}
\begin{document}
Some text\footnoteB{A regular footnote.} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}. Some text\footnoteB{Another regular footnote} Some text\footnoteA{Another symbol footnote} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote} Some text\footnoteA{A symbol footnote}.
\end{document}

bigfoot
/manyfoot
package, and assign the symbol list in roughly the same way. For a LaTeX solution you would need to find a font or package that supplies the clefs. I couldn't find one. I guess you could create a character using images of the clefs if you really needed LaTeX. See e.g. How to turn a figure into a symbol? and Create a symbol font from SVG symbols. – Alan Munn Jan 25 '19 at 17:42latex
command on some systems is an alias for the PDFTeX engine, but “LaTeX” more often refers to the language itself, compiled on any engine. – Davislor Jan 25 '19 at 23:06