Page Layout ⇒ Author affiliation as footnotes

[NELLLY]

Hello
I need in the authors affiliations to get them at the bottom of the page as footnotes and the authors indexed by the letters a and b.
I used the following code

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{authblk}

\title{The Title}
\author{Author XXX\textsuperscript{a}\thanks{\noindent\textsuperscript{a}Address of the author XXX \\
Email...}\,
Author YYY \textsuperscript{b}{\footnote{\textsuperscript{b}
Address of the author YYY}} }
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle



\end{document}

I get the attached output.
I need to suppress the symbol † both after the author name and the address of the second author. I need also to get for the first author name a*† and at the footnote * will contain the address and † the E-mail of the first author.
Thanks.

[localghost]

You don't really need authblk here. Alternatively you can try a different approach like this with the help of etoolbox. It's a patch of the \maketitle command.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\maketitle}{\@fnsymbol}{\@alph}{}{}  % Footnote numbers from symbols to small letters
\makeatother

\title{The Title}
\author{
  Author XXX\thanks{Address of the author XXX, Email ...}
  \and
  Author YYY\thanks{Address of the author YYY, Email ...}
}
\date{}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

Just click on "Open in writeLaTeX" in the head of the above code box to see the output instantly.


Thorsten