[OS X TeX] footnote with asterisk

[Fredrik Wallenberg]

What is wrong with using \thanks{} ?

\title{Title of the Paper\thanks{I'm indebted to blah blah blah.}}

Fredrik

On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 06:13 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 11/24/02 7:43 PM, "Kentaro Nakatani" <knakatan at fas.harvard.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All:
>>
>> I'm sorry that this topic is not necessarily related to Mac OS X,
>> but I have a question for which I can't find an answer.
>> In a paper, it is common to have the first footnote containing
>> acknowledgments marked with an asterisk...but how can
>> I do it in LaTeX?  Lamport book says in using \footnote[num]{text},
>> num should be a positive integer, 'even when footnotes are
>> "numbered" with letters or other symbols'.  But I don't see
>> how to number the footnotes with letters or symbols.
>> My best guess is, this could be achieved by "\fnsymbol{footnote}"
>> command...but it seems this command only produces symbols,
>> rather than replacing the footnote counters.
>>
>> So when I tried a command like this:
>> =============
>> \LARGE
>> \textbf{Title of the Paper \fnsymbol{footnote}\footnote{
>> \fnsymbol{footnote}
>> I'm indebted to blah blah blah.}}
>> =============
>> there were regular footnote counters AND asterisks at the same time.
>> If I use \footnotetext instead of \footnote, there will still be an
>> unwanted
>> numerical counter remaining.
>>
>> Could anybody help me with this problem?
>> Thank you.
>>
>> -Ken N.
>>
>>
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>
> Howdy,
>
> Use: \renewcommand\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}} before the 
> \maketitle,
> or whatever you use to make the title.
>
> Then, use the same substituting \roman for \fnsymbol and also
> \addtocounter{footnote}{-1} after the \maketitle to go back to roman
> numerals and restart with footnote number 1.
>
> Hopefully I've got this correct.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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