I want to use symbolic footnotes in one or two places of a document typeset in Libertine, the rest can stay arabic as usual. Therefore, I redefine \thefootnote locally:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
% \usepackage{superiors}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
bla sldk slkd lskd\footnote{sldfkjlsdkfj sldksl dksld }
\end{center}
sld sldkjsl djfls djs d\footnote{sldfjslk}
\end{document}
Without superiors, everything is good (albeit the 2 is typographically inferior):
But unfortunately, once the one line is uncommented, the asterisk is badly positioned:
The same effect occurs in the actual footnote Most times), and with subsequent symbols (dagger etc.)
I can see that superiors redefines the footnotes in some way, but don't really understand those internals. How can I fix this error, keeping the superiors effect? (Ideally, I'd also prefer the asterisk a bit larger than it appears in the first screenshot, but that's luxury).
Post hoc
Given Ulrike's answer, I factored out the functionality into an environment to correctly switch to symbolic footnotes locally, starting from * every time and preserving the original numbering afterwards:
\newcounter{phg@footnotestate}
\newenvironment{symbolicfootnotes}{%
\setcounter{phg@footnotestate}{\value{footnote}}%
\setcounter{footnote}{0}%
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/565263/46356
\makeatletter\def\f@@tn@te{blub}\makeatother%
}{%
\setcounter{footnote}{\value{phg@footnotestate}}%
}
