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From: ngs@sunkst.cs.duke.edu (Neil G. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: non-numerical footnote marking
Keywords: footnotes, LaTex
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Date: 23 Jul 90 18:14:13 GMT
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I would like to mark a footnote in LaTeX with something other than a
number.  I cannot find help in the manual, and nothing I have tried
has worked.  The footnotemark and footnotetext commands appear to be
no help, as footnotetext always seems to generate a number to precede
the footnote at the bottom of the page.

I realize that I can create a footnote reference trivially in the
text.  It is the character preceding the actual footnote at the bottom
of the page that presents the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Neil G. Sullivan
Dept of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
ngs@cs.duke.edu