[Solved] Footnote symbol: vertical position of asterisk

[Hrodlandson]

Task underway is constrained to use Times New Roman as font.
When the asterisk is selected as a footnote anchor it is almost invisible at normal size. I've defined a style just for it but cannot get the glyph to render lower even if I try Subscript styling. Setting font color works but Relative Font Size has no impact altho if I select the asterisk & change the Font Size value it does increase the size -- but it expands the interlinear spacing (maybe because the glyph is too high then) & the increase in interlinear space looks horrible. (Also, there is a constraint on how much interlinear space I can have in the finished product.)
Corollary: How come I cannot subscript that «*» glyph?
Marked solved in sympathy for everyone struggling to provide a straight-forward answer. In html this is quite easy to do, it is unathomable that writer doesn't have a straightforward way to adjust the height of a fn anchor from the baseline.

[JeJe]

You could rotate it 90 degrees but there's a bit of a space if you have text following.

[cwolan]

FWIW, see Bugzilla Issue 86594
"Asterisk (*) as footnote-numbering too small (double superscript)"

[JeJe]

Another workaround would be to color the asterisk white so its not seen and put a drawing textbox with an asterisk at that location in the background and anchored to the character. A small glitch is the change to a hand cursor is lost.

[Hrodlandson]

Another workaround would be to color the asterisk white so its not seen and put a drawing textbox with an asterisk at that location in the background and anchored to the character. A small glitch is the change to a hand cursor is lost.

If the space between is kept small the hand cursor does tend to show up when spiraling into the link.