marke@cs.uwa.oz.au (Mark Ellison) (06/27/91)
Here is a function which writes a footnote without
a mark in either the main text or the footnote.
Some journals (eg Linguistic Inquiry) put acknowledgements
in an unnumbered first footnote. With this function
you can put them there.
I put the function in a style file in a standard
place for easy access and use.
-------------------<LaTeX Source Below>-------------------
% T Mark Ellison 26 Jun 1991
%
% This style file defines the command \nnfoottext
% which allows the user to at any time insert footnote
% text material without adding a footnote number
% to either the main page or the note.
%
% Sample Use:
%
% .....
% \begin{document}
% .....
% \nnfoottext{This is a witty and interesting
% numberless footnote. Thank-you.}
% .....
% \end{document}
%
% This was originally developed for the acknowledgement
% notes similar to the style used by the journal
% Linguistic Inquiry. The code was adapted from the latex
% source.
%
\long\def\nnfoottext#1{\insert\footins{\footnotesize
\interlinepenalty\interfootnotelinepenalty
\splittopskip\footnotesep
\splitmaxdepth \dp\strutbox \floatingpenalty \@MM
\hsize\columnwidth \@parboxrestore
\edef\@thefnmark{}
\edef\@currentlabel{}\@makefntext
{\rule{\z@}{\footnotesep}\ignorespaces
#1\strut}}}
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T Mark Ellison marke@cuscus.cs.uwa.oz.au Department of Computer Science
University of Western Australia
Never necklace an albatross. W.A. 6009, Australiarig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg) (06/28/91)
In article <marke.678003955@cuscus> marke@cs.uwa.oz.au (Mark Ellison) writes: > >Here is a function which writes a footnote without >a mark in either the main text or the footnote. >Some journals (eg Linguistic Inquiry) put acknowledgements >in an unnumbered first footnote. With this function >you can put them there. > >I put the function in a style file in a standard >place for easy access and use. > >-------------------<LaTeX Source Below>------------------- >% T Mark Ellison 26 Jun 1991 >% >% This style file defines the command \nnfoottext >% which allows the user to at any time insert footnote >% text material without adding a footnote number >% to either the main page or the note. I used to prepare papers in this style; now I generally use \thanks and \maketitle which gives you something like an asterisk or dagger in the text and footnote. In any case, there is a LaTeX method to get your behavior without making up your own footnote function (in case you later end up using a style that does footnotes a little differently or something). Just make the following definitions \newcommand{\arabicifpos}[1]{\@arabicifpos{\@nameuse{c@#1}}} \newcommand{\@arabicifpos}[1]{\ifnum #1>0 \number #1\fi} \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabicifpos{footnote}} Then, you just do, e.g. \footnotetext[0]{stuff} whenever you want. If, in fact, it is before any other footnotes as in the situation you originally described, you don't need the "[0]". -- Ronald I. Greenberg (Ron) rig@eng.umd.edu