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}}} -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- T Mark Ellison marke@cuscus.cs.uwa.oz.au Department of Computer Science University of Western Australia Never necklace an albatross. W.A. 6009, Australia
rig@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