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From: morrow@murdu.oz (Christopher Morrow)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: unmarked footnotes in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1698@murdu.oz>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:47:18 GMT
References: <2361@goanna.oz> <1485@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: morrow@murdu.UUCP (Christopher Morrow)
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In article <1485@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright) writes:
>The way that I read p.156, \footnotetext produces a footnote without
>putting a footnote mark IN THE BODY OF THE PAGE.  It does put a
>footnote mark in the actual footnote, so it will presumably match up
>with the \footnotemark that you placed somewhere naughty in the body
>of the page.
>
>-- 
>Jim Wright
>jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu


I accidentally discovered how to use this feature and disable footnote
marks the other day.  \footnotemark and \footnotetext do not increment
the footnote counter (This is in the LaTeX book) so what you do is
make the counter{footnote}{0}.  When the footnote counter equals zero
no footnote symbol is produced.   Note that this counter is
initialized to zero.

Chris Morrow
PS I only found this out whilst trying to accomodate some arcane
style. (non-style).