Question: In the context of the scholarly apparatus package [`ednotes`](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ednotes) I would like to create a customized `\Bnote` which behaves like a normal LaTeX footnote; i.e., I would like to enter into the body of the text something like

```
blah blah.\Bnote{a}{This is the footnote text.} Blah blah blah...

```

And the footnote would appear below the `\Anote` layer and would look something like

> 
> a This is the footnote text.
> 
> 
> 

Within the `ednotes.sty` file there are a number of commands that can be modified to customize `\Bnote`, but I haven't been able to see how to get this behavior. Why, you ask, do I not just use the standard footnote utility? Because it comes out ABOVE the `\Anote` layer. Just to be clear, the default behavior in ednote that I am trying to override is using the line number as the footnote reference.

I am using LuaLaTeX and TeXShop.

Answer: 
In the meantime I (`ednotes`'s author) have told by mail: `ednotes` uses `manyfoot` as "footnote engine". `ednotes`'s setup of footnote layers uses `manyfoot`'s setup to create layers of footnotes without footnote marks. To get the footnote marks "back", I think one should not try from within `ednotes`, better use `manyfoot` directly.

In the previous solution, I see the redefinition of `\linesfmt`. That is very right, some seconds before I had looked at the code and discovered it myself. Paul had discovered `\lemmafmt` before. That above solution really looks like that it should work; but `manyfoot` already offers a counter that should better be used directly.
Following up on Uwe's suggestion, here is another approach that produces the same output as lockstep's (though without the automatic counters):

```
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ednotes}

\linenumbers

\newfootnote{Z}
\newcommand\footnoteZ[2]{\Footnotemark{#1}\FootnotetextZ{}{#2}}

\begin{document}

\null\vfill% just for the example

Some text \Anote{a}{An apparatus A note.}.

Some text.\footnoteZ{1}{An apparatus B note that behaves like a normal footnote.}

Some text.\footnoteZ{2}{And another one.}

\end{document}

```

The `\newfootnote{}` command is part of the `manyfoot` package loaded by `ednote`.