Page Layout ⇒ How can I customize the \thanks footnote symbol?

[ereninci]

Thank you very much Clemens. I embed these codes into SWP, which seem to not recognize the part \numexpr#1-1 as a mathematical calculation. So, I get the text "2-1" as the marking for footnote 2 and "3-1" for footnote 3. Is there any different way of coding this.

Cheers,
Eren

[cgnieder]

I embed these codes into SWP, which seem to not recognize the part \numexpr#1-1 as a mathematical calculation.

A wild guess: SWP means Scientific Workplace? It seems that it doesn't use the e-TeX extensions such as \numexpr (although they're available since the mid-90s...)

If that is so you should get the error message

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! Undefined control sequence.

If you don't get that something else is going on and you should ask a new question (in a new thread referring to this one) including a minimal working example.

I must admit I don't ad hoc how to do this without e-TeX in an expandable way (which seems to be required for \@fnsymbol).

Regards

[ereninci]

Yes. That is the error message I get.
Thanks for all your help.
Eren