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From: rar@kronos.ads.com (Bob Riemenschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: non-numerical footnote marking
Message-ID: <9007232104.AA05987@kronos.ads.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 21:04:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu's message of 23 Jul 90 19:25:12 GMT

=>   From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
=>   Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
=>
=>   ... To change the way that footnotes are renumbered, one simply
=>   redefines \thefootnote: The following will change footnotes to be
=>   numbered with "footnote symbols":
=>   \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
=>   ...

For a standard "footnote symbol" style, you need 

	\@addtoreset{footnote}{page}

as well.  (If you're using letters, you can be a bit more liberal.  But,
for large documents, you'll have to do something about resetting footnote
every once in awhile.)

							-- rar