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From: sanjay@coquille.uucp (Sanjay Rajopadhye)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to put an \ast footnote in LaTeX
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Date: 5 Feb 91 18:05:46 GMT
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  One of the standard rules of thumb of writing style is to never put
footnotes in mathematical formulae.  The (numerical) superscripts can be
misinterpreted as powers, and if you use \fnsymbol, the \ast \dagger, etc
could be confused with mathematical operators.

 = Sanjay