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jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:

>Here is what I need:

>I am using the LaTeX command \footnotetext to keep the footnote mark
>from being generated in the text and to keep the footnote counter from
>being incremented.  When I use this option I don't want a number to
>appear in the footnote area either. [..] 

>Thanks,
>JAF

The footnote number printed in the footnote area is \hss$^{\@thefnmark}$
It is possible to redefine the footnote-printing command to print the
value of a certain variable e.g. \epmark .

Then I deffine two commands for setting \epmark to either \hss$^{\@thefnmark}$
or {}   (nothing).

You can then use \markson to turn on numbers in the footnote field, and
\marksoff to turn them off.  The foot.sty shown below takes care of the 
definitions and initially turns marks on.
----------------- foot.sty --------------------------
\def\markson{\def\epmark{\hss$^{\@thefnmark}$}}
\def\marksoff{\def\epmark{}}
\markson
\def\@makefntext#1{\parindent 1em\noindent \hbox to 1.8em{\epmark}#1}
-----------------------------------------------------
Example :

\documentstyle[foot,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Here is what I need:

I am using the LaTeX command ``footnotetext'' to keep the footnote mark
from being generated in the text and to keep the footnote counter from
being incremented.
\footnote{This is a ordinary footnote}
When I use this option I don't want a number to
\marksoff
\footnotetext{This is an unordinary footnote}
\markson
appear in the footnote area either.  The list of nine footnote symbols
\footnote{This is a ordinary footnote}
available using the ``fnsymbol'' command do not include blank.  I wrote
a tiny style file that tried to change the ``fnsymbol def'' (from latex.tex)
to a blank but that didn't work.  I also tried to pull a macro call \ldots
\end{document}

Kind regards 

Erik Plesner (ep@id.dth.dk)
M.Sc., Research Engineer, Technical University of Denmark.