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The following code produces a footnote so that the footnote mark can be
repeated. It seems there is a bug with this. The footnote mark is indeed
repeated, but there is too large a white-space between the end letter (right before the footnote mark)
and the footnote mark itself. Is there anyway we ...

The following code does almost what I want. It changes
the reference, in the text, from 1a) to 1a and 2a) to 2a etc.
The problem is at the subfigure. This code puts 1a and 2a.
I would rather have just a. I realize this may be easy to
fix for some. But, the ending 4 lines are greek to me.

thanks ...