...generate footnotes without numbering/mark ? I just...

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Answer by Marvin The Martian
Submitted on 4/6/2007
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It's LaTeX, therefore it's possible --- this answers the first part of the question. The second part's answer is obvious: suppress the printing of the number! For example, by typing \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{}. If there are other (numbered) footnotes, some extra care must be taken because your footnote did (invisibly) increase the footnote number. Don't do that manually with \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}, because you create errors if you move, add or delete unnumbered footnotes. If you don't want the counter to be increased at every (invisible) footnote marker: (1) surround the \renewcommand and the footnote in question with curly brackets, so the \renewcommand acts only local, (2) don't use \footnote{..} but \footnotetext{..} --- as you don't put a \footnotemark anywhere, the footnote counter does not get increased. Also note that using \footnote{..} instead of \footnotetext{..} invisibly reserves space for the object the (invisible) marker refers to, and can hence influence your page layout: e.g., if you have an unnumbered \footnote{..} between a \section{..} and an environment like abstract, or center, then an empty line gets inserted. This is similar to the visible difference between $-a$ and ${}-a$, where in principle {} shouldn't take up space (but it does change minus here from monadic to dyadic). FYI, the way our \renewcommand works is the following. Consider any LaTeX environment which has a counter, so you can use \label and \ref with it [e.g., chapter, equation, footnote, figure]: if the environment is called BEEP, then the counter's name is BEEP, and the command \theBEEP gives the recipe for printing the counter's value in some fashion (with roman literals, footnote symbols, arabic numbers, ... ). In the case of footnotes, the original result is recovered by \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}} or by \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}. If you have an appendix environment for your chapters, similar to a section, you can choose to number them as 1.A 1.B ... by typing \renewcommand{\theappendix}{\arabic{chapter}.\Alph{appendix}} All the best, Marv

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Question by Jean Dezert
Submitted on 3/31/2004
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How to generate footnotes without numbering/mark ? I just need to add footnotes in some chapters of a book, but I don't want marks/numbers related to my footnotes. Is it possible and how ? Any tip for doing this ? Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards, Dr. Jean Dezert

Answer by knut
Submitted on 10/24/2005
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\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{Footnotetext without footnote mark} \footnote{Footnote with footnote mark}

Answer by Trevor
Submitted on 1/10/2007
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http://help-csli.stanford.edu/tex/latex-footnotes.shtml

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