noindent in footnote

[John Patrick Lestrade]

With a default parindent of, say, 1cm, why do the following not work?
\footnote*{\noindent This footnote should not be indented--but it is!}
\footnote*{\parindent=0pt This footnote should not be either, but...

thanks for an explanation and thanks dfor asolution.

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John Patrick Lestrade, PhD jp...@ra.msstate.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy batse::lestrade (SPAN)
Mississippi State University, MS 39762 lest...@msstate.bitnet

[Gerald Edgar]

>\footnote*{\parindent=0pt This footnote should not be either, but...

Your parindent is too late. Try this:

\parindent=0pt\footnote*{This footnote should not be either, but...

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