I am writing a text using numeric bibliography references, i.e. a citation like [@foobar] results in a number as superscript. However, I also need to add footnotes. To distinguish between footnotes and bibliography references, I need the footnotes to be using letters of alphabet rather than numbers, i.e.
Here is some text [^a]
[^a]: This is a footnote
Should generate a superscript a rather than 1 as footnote reference when rendering the text. Otherwise it cannot be distinguished from a bibliography reference. Is there a way to achieve it with pandoc? I can think of a way of achieving it in LaTeX, but unfortunately the document must be generated as a Word document.