General ⇒ Suppressing footnote numbers

[tdc]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me,

I'm trying to add a footnote that doesn't include a number... currently i'm using \footnotetext but that just gives me a footnote with a number 0, is there anyway to suppress this number?

Cheers, Tim

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tim,

here's a quick woraround:

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 surrounding text{\renewcommand*\@makefnmark{}
\footnotetext{Text}
\makeatother} more text

Stefan

[tdc]

Thanks for the response, tho that approach doesn't seem to work...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It works for me with the report class. Depending on your document class, the packaged loaded by you and your settings it may have a different effect, if you want to solve this just tell us your document preamble or provide a minimal working example.

Stefan

[tdc]

this is most of my preamble

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{amsbook}

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{a4}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{appendix} 

Thanks for your help

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Try this compilable example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{amsbook}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{a4}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{appendix} 
\begin{document}
Text\makeatletter{\renewcommand*{\@makefnmark}{}
\footnotetext{footnote without mark}\makeatother}
more text\footnote{another footnote}
\end{document}

Stefan

[tdc]

Works beautifully, thanks for the help!
Tim

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Btw. the a4 package is obsolete, the option a4paper for amsbook is enough. If you're using it just because of the narrower margins you could have a look at the geometry package that allows adjustments in a comfortable way.

Stefan