Text Formatting ⇒ Suppress Footnote Rule and Number

[lynnlee]

Hello LaTeX Community,

I am trying to format the footnotes. when I write \footnote, the footnote is produced with a line to separate it from texts.

But if I want to make the separate line disappear, which code should I use?

And how to suppress the automatically generated number for footnote?


Thank you.
Lynn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Lynn,

you could use the footmisc package, which provides some features for customizing the footnote layout. For example, you can suppress the separation line via the norule option:

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\usepackage[norule]{footmisc}

Regarding suppressing the number: do you mean in the footer or in the text? Would you like to replace it, or live without a possibility for referencing, i.e. without knowing which footnote belongs to which text part?

Stefan

[lynnlee]

Thank you, Stefan.

Sorry about confusion.
If there is only one footnote, I really do not need to number it. Then, how to replace it with other marks(both in text and footer)?

Lynn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Just have a look at the documentation, which I linked above.

You could use the symbol and perpage options:

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\usepackage[norule,symbol,perpage]{footmisc}

Stefan

[lynnlee]

That solved perfectly. Thank you, Stefan.

Lynn

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