%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-2-6 on page 114.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{4\baselineskip}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
   {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark.\,}#1}
\makeatother
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
text text text\footnote{The first}
text text\footnote{The second} text.
\end{document}