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From: jtkohl@athena.mit.edu (John T Kohl)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Footnotemark in Section Head (LaTeX)
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Date: 27 Apr 88 21:05:28 GMT
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Keywords: LaTeX footnote section heading

In article <7775@brl-smoke.ARPA> abc@brl-smoke.ARPA (Brint Cooper) writes:
>I want to place a footnote marker as a superscript at the end of a
>section head using LaTeX and "report" style.  I have tried the following
>without success:
...
>These produce a diagnostic that there is a spurious '}':
>\section{Section Header Here\footnotemark}
...
>What am I missing?

\footnotemark is fragile, and arguments to \section are moving
arguments.
Try

\section{Section Header Here\protect\footnotemark}

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John Kohl
MIT/Project Athena