In many types of publishing—especially academic, religious, and literary works—there is often a need to insert symbolic footnotes, such as a single asterisk (), double asterisks (*), dagger (†), or other custom characters, without affecting the numbering sequence of standard footnotes in the document.

Currently, InDesign only supports one unified footnote style per document, which means that using a symbol instead of a number affects all footnotes globally. This makes it impossible to add a single symbolic note while keeping the rest of the footnotes numbered.

Feature Request: Please consider allowing users to insert a one-time, manually defined footnote symbol (like a star or dagger) alongside normal numbered footnotes. This could be implemented as:

A "custom footnote marker" option when inserting a footnote

Or an "inline note" feature with a customizable reference marker and body text

This flexibility would be highly valuable to book designers, editors, and academic publishers who frequently need to use both symbolic and numeric footnotes in the same document.