How can I include footnotes with no number and no mark?

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Hi,

I am writing a template similar to the IEEE Transactions (most similar is the Control Systems Letters LaTeX template from https://template-selector.ieee.org/).

I managed most of the things but I am struggling with one aspect. In the template they have thanks-footnotes on the first page with no numbering, neither in the body text nor in the footnote part.

You can (kind of) see what I am aiming for in the "IEEE Journal Paper Template " on Overleaf (Unsupported browser).

I managed to avoid numbering in the body text but I have not succeeded in avoiding the numbering in the footnotes section.

A MWE is

#let thanks(body) = {
  show footnote: it => { }
  footnote[#body]
}

A regular footnote #footnote[A footnote]
#thanks[A thank you note]
#thanks[A second thank you note]
Another regular footnote #footnote[A second footnote]

Any help to solve this is appreciated!

Best,
Erik

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I’m not sure why you can’t set numbering to none, but you can still do it:

#set page(paper: "a7")

#let thanks(body) = {
  footnote(numbering: _ => [])[#body]
  counter(footnote).update(n => n - 1)
}

A regular footnote #footnote[A footnote]
#thanks[A thank you note]
#thanks[A second thank you note]
Another regular footnote #footnote[A second footnote]

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That solved it nicely, thanks!

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