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In article <1992Aug25.172152.18934@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>,
chenm@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Ming chen) writes:
|> 
|> Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following commands:
|> 
|> %===========================================================
|> 
|> \author{M. Chen\footnotemark[1] ~~and M. Comeau\footnotemark[2] }
|> 
|> \footnotetext[1]{ Dept. of Civil Engr.}
|> \footnotetext[2]{ Dept. of Appl. Math.}
|> 
|> %===========================================================
|> 
|> 
|> Instead of producing number "1" and "2" for the authors (M. Chen and 
|> M. Comeau), it gives special symbols such as "*" and "+" (\dag). 
|> 
|> The strang thing is that the numbers do get right for the bottom note.

\maketitle in the standard styles temporarily redefines \thefootnote to
be \fnsymbol{footnote}. The footnotes involved are expected to be generated
by \thanks rather than explicitly. I suppose that you could use \thanks for
the author's address, although this is clearly not what Lamport had in mind.
He would also want you to separate the authors' names with \and.

Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
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