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In article <1992Aug3.212439.6828@aero.org>, luke@aero.org (Robert A. Luke) writes:
|> 
|> I am trying to use footnote symbols (like asterisks and daggers)
|> instead of the normal numbers, but am not having much luck.  I tried
|> to use \fnsymbol{footnote}  (page 175 of Leslie Lamport's book) 
|> as the "num" argument to \footnote[num]{text}  (on page 156), but
|> my version of LaTeX complained about needing a number for "num".  And,
|> sure enough, Lamport says that "num" must be a positive integer.
|> 
|> AAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!
|> 
|> Does anybody know how to get asterisks and daggers for footnotes
|> instead of numbers?  I'd sure appreciate any help you can give me.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.

The following solution is from Helmut Kopka's book `LaTeX. Eine Einfuehrung':

    \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

Instead of \fnsymbol you may also use one of \arabic (the original setting),
\roman, \Roman, \alph or \Alph. To actually generate the footnote use 

    \footnote[num]{text}

where num corresponds to the following symbols if \fnsymbol has been used:
      1      \ast        5     \P            9    \ddag\ddag
      2      \dag        6     \parallel
      3      \ddag       7     \ast\ast
      4      \S          8     \dag\dag

To restore \trhefootnote

    \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}

|> Thanks in advance.

Hope that helps,
                Stefan.
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