General ⇒ I am getting footnote in TOC

[hfarrukhn]

Hello,

I have the following line in my thesis:

\chapter[ABC]{ABC}\protect\symbolfootnote[1]{Results from this work have been presented.......}}


The problem is that I am getting this footnote in TOC. I don't want to have it there. Can anybody help me?

Regards,

Farrukh

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Farrukh,

I've tested this code line and the footnote does not get into the toc, it appears only on the chapter page. Please check if you've given us the right code, because the braces are not matching. I could test it after removing the last closing brace. Perhaps post a minimal working example that shows the problem.

Btw. that's not a WinEdt issue, I will move that topic to LaTeX/General later.

Stefan

[hfarrukhn]

Sorry for the missing braces. Following is the line that I have in my thesis:

\chapter[Yeast ........... pathways]{Mevalonate ..................\emph{Yeast}\protect\symbolfootnote[1]{Results from this work have been presented...........}

this places a footnote in the text as well as in TOC.

Regards.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Farrukh,

this code is different to the first, in the first posting the footnote was outside the chapter title, because {ABC} was closed by a brace. Here it's inside now. Just a remark. But the error can still not be reproduced. To understand why, try this minimal working example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\long\def\symbolfootnote[#1]#2{\begingroup\def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\footnote[#1]{#2}\endgroup}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter[Yeast ........... pathways]{Mevalonate ..................\emph{Yeast}\protect\symbolfootnote[1]{Results from this work have been presented...........}}
text
\end{document}

I didn't change your line, I've just completed it to make it compilable. Compile this and check if the footnote is appearing only where it should be.

Stefan

[hfarrukhn]

Hi Stefan,

In your given example the short chapter title was taken in TOC and error was not reproduced. While I am displaying long chapter titles in TOC.

Hereby I paste the minimal code to reproduce the problem.

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
%\documentclass[envcountsame,envcountchap,oneside]{svmono-sab}
\long\def\symbolfootnote[#1]#2{\begingroup\def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\footnote[#1]{#2}\endgroup}


%%%%%% To take long chapter names in toc
\makeatletter
\def\@chapter[#1]#2{%
   \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
      \if@mainmatter
         \refstepcounter{chapter}%
         \typeout{\@chapapp\space\thechapter.}%
         \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
             {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#2}%
      \else
         \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}%
      \fi
   \else
      \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}%
   \fi
   \chaptermark{#1}%
   \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}%
   \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}%
   \if@twocolumn
      \@topnewpage[\@makechapterhead{#2}]%
   \else
      \@makechapterhead{#2}%
      \@afterheading
   \fi}
\makeatother
%%%%%%% End To take long chapter names in toc



\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter[Yeast ........... pathways]{Mevalonate ..................\emph{Yeast}\protect\symbolfootnote[1]{Results from this work have been presented...........}}
text
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Farrukh,

here the cause can be seen in the definition of \@chapter. Consider these lines:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#2}%

#2 is the long title including the footnote. #1 would be the short title without footnote, #1 is used in the original definition of book.cls. The same applies to the other \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2} calls.

Stefan

[hfarrukhn]

Hi,
Thanks for your prompt reply. Is there some solution to it? I want to keep long titles in TOC but still avoid footnotes in TOC.

Farrukh

[phi]

You can disable your footnote command before including the TOC file:

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\begin{document}
\begingroup
\long\def\symbolfootnote[#1]#2{}
\tableofcontents
\endgroup

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could disable the footnote command temporarily:

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{\long\def\symbolfootnote[#1]#2{}
\tableofcontents}

Stefan

[hfarrukhn]

It worked!!!! Thanks for the great help.

Have a nice week ahead.

Farrukh