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: 
I suspect that it is possible to create a hack that puts "normal" footnotes below the "apparatus" notes of `ednotes`. As I don't know how to do that, here's a second-best solution that

* removes the line numbers from and changes the mark format of `\Bnote`;
* defines a new macro `\Bfootnote` that tinkers with the `footnote` counter to produce (hopefully) correct automatic numbering of "apparatus B" notes.

---

```
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[Bplain]{ednotes}

\linenumbers

\newcommand{\Bnotefmt}{%
  \renewcommand*{\sameline}[1]{\linesfmt{##1}}%
  \renewcommand*{\differentlines}[2]{\linesfmt{##1\textendash##2}}%
%  \renewcommand*{\linesfmt}[1]{\textbf{##1}\enspace}% DELETED
  \renewcommand*{\linesfmt}[1]{}% NEW
  \renewcommand*{\pageandline}[2]{##1.##2}% ##1 page, ##2 line.
  \renewcommand*{\repeatref}[1]{##1}% E.g., ...
  \renewcommand*{\repeatref}[1]{\textnormal{/}}% ... instead.
%  \renewcommand{\lemmafmt}[1]{##1\thinspace]\enskip}% DELETED
  \renewcommand{\lemmafmt}[1]
      {\stepcounter{footnote}\textsuperscript{##1}\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}}% NEW
  \renewcommand{\lemmaellipsis}{\textsymmdots}%
  \renewcommand{\notefmt}[1]{##1}%
}

\newcommand*{\Bfootnote}[1]{%
  \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
  \Bnote{\footnotemark}{#1}%
}

\begin{document}

\null\vfill% just for the example

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

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

Some text.\Bfootnote{And another one.}

\end{document}

```

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WD12z.jpg)
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`.