Page Layout ⇒ footnote to chapter title

[lauraf]

Hi all,

I need to add a footnote to the title page of a chapter in my thesis. I have tried:

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\chapter[Title]{Title\footnote{text}}

The problem with this is that it creates a number, following the chapter title, that uses the same font size as the title itself (i.e. huge), and this looks very ugly.

Is there a way round this? In fact, if possible, I would prefer to not have the number at all -- I only need the footnote text in this instance. I guess there may be a way to achieve this with fancyhdr but I am not sure how.

Any help much appreciated!
Laura

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Laura,

you could try \footnotetext.

Stefan

[lauraf]

Thanks Stefan, right what I needed!

I didn't realize that \footnotetext could be used without \footnotemark

Laura

[schremmer]

The following works but the footnote mark is lost about an inch below the Chapter Title:

\chapter{ChapterTitle}\footnotemark{}\footnotetext{Some footnote text}

The following

\chapter{ChapterTitle\footnotemark{}\footnotetext{Some footnote text}}

causes an error

! Use of \@chapter doesn't match its definition.
\@ifnextchar ... \reserved@d =#1\def \reserved@a {
#2}\def \reserved@b {#3}\f...
l.5 ...et another set of ``conversion factors''.}}

Regards
--schremmer

[schremmer]

But

\chapter[Title of chapter]{Title of chapter\footnote{Text of footnote}}

does work!!!

Go figure.

--schremmer

[frabjous]

That solution is better, unless you want the footnote duplicated in the table of contents! But if for whatever reason you did want it, you could use \protect:

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\chapter{ChapterTitle\protect\footnotemark{}\protect\footnotetext{Some footnote text}}

Or just:

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\chapter{ChapterTitle\protect\footnote{Some footnote text}}

[schremmer]

You are quite right: \protect is all over the LaTeX companion 2ed and I really ought to get to understand it. But \dots

Regards
--schremmer