Text Formatting ⇒ Shifting Footnote Symbols in Title

[Sundial]

What I wish to solve is written in this figure.

author-footnote-symbols.png (17.14 KiB) Viewed 11042 times

It has been created with the following code.

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt] {article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\title{\color{blue}The Walt Disney World}
\author{\color{black}Micky Mouse\footnote{Born on 1924}, 
Donald Duck\footnote{Born on 1926}, Myself\footnote{Born now}}
\date{\color{red}February 2013}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

How can I shift them and use next one of series? Could someone help me?

Thanks in advance

[localghost]

[…] How can I shift them and use next one of series? […]

Which series of symbols do you exactly want to have there?


Thorsten

[Sundial]

As shown below.

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asterisk 	* for first name
dagger 	        † NO
double dagger 	‡ NO
section symbol 	§ for second name
paragraph    	¶ for third name

Thank you

[cgnieder]

This question is two-fold ans thus the answer is, too. The symbols used for the footnotes are stored in a macro called \@fnsymbol. It's definition is as follows:

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\def\@fnsymbol#1{\ensuremath{\ifcase#1\or *\or \dagger\or \ddagger\or
   \mathsection\or \mathparagraph\or \|\or **\or \dagger\dagger
   \or \ddagger\ddagger \else\@ctrerr\fi}}

A suitable redefinition takes care of your symbols wish.

As for the cramped footnotes: usually the \author command is used a bit differently, namely using \thanks instead of \footnote and the names delimited with \and:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt] {article}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\makeatletter
\def\@fnsymbol#1{\ensuremath{\ifcase#1\or *\or %\dagger\or \ddagger\or
   \mathsection\or \mathparagraph\or \|\or **\or \dagger\dagger
   \or \ddagger\ddagger \else\@ctrerr\fi}}
\makeatother

\title{\color{blue}The Walt Disney World}
\author{%
  \color{black}Micky Mouse\thanks{Born on 1924} \and
  Donald Duck\thanks{Born on 1926} \and
  Myself\thanks{Born now}%
}
\date{\color{red}February 2013}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

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But they indeed still look a bit cramped. A manual solution could be to insert a suitable \kern:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt] {article}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\makeatletter
\def\@fnsymbol#1{\ensuremath{\ifcase#1\or *\or %\dagger\or \ddagger\or
   \mathsection\or \mathparagraph\or \|\or **\or \dagger\dagger
   \or \ddagger\ddagger \else\@ctrerr\fi}}
\makeatother

\title{\color{blue}The Walt Disney World}
\author{%
  \color{black}Micky Mouse\thanks{Born on 1924} \and
  Donald Duck\thanks{Born on 1926} \and
  Myself\kern.07em\thanks{Born now}%
}
\date{\color{red}February 2013}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

titlefn2.png (12.48 KiB) Viewed 11027 times

You can do the same if you want to stick to your original setting using a comma list.

Regards

[Sundial]

Superb solution, Clemens!
Thank you very much and thanks to the forum, too!