[Tex/LaTex] Authors with multiple footnotes

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Say I have an article. Under the title goes the name of three authors. The first author belongs to two organisations. The second belongs to one of the two from the first. And the last author belongs to a third organisation.

I considered either \footnote or \thanks but neither of them seem to allow me to tag several authors with the same footnote, and tag one author with several.

Here's an example:

A.C. Clarke (a, b); F. Herbert (b); I. Asimov (c)

(a): Stanford University

(b): Yale University

(c): Harvard University

Best Answer

Here an easy way out is to just insert the appropriate \thanks where it is needed. The MWE below does this through \specificthanks{<num>}:

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\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\specificthanks}[1]{\@fnsymbol{#1}}% Inserts a specific \thanks symbol
\makeatother
\title{My document}
\author{A.C.~Clarke\thanks{Stanford University}
  \textsuperscript{, \specificthanks{2}} \and
  F.~Herbert\thanks{Yale University}\label{yale-uni} \and
  I.~Asimov\thanks{Harvard University}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
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