Footnote with no footnotemark

Question

In this MWE I'd like to have the footnote with no footnotemark in text or footnote. I'm surprised that I couldn't find an answer elsewhere on this site - perhaps I haven't looked properly.

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[textheight=4in]{geometry}

\newcommand{\chapternote}[1]{%
\footnote{\emph{#1}}%
}

\begin{document}

\chapter{One}

\begin{quotation}
Some introductory material here \ldots
\end{quotation}

\chapternote{Information about this chapter -- without footnotemark,
  please.}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Edit: followup question. I'd like to have normal footnote numbering for all the ordinary \footnote s. Footnote counter should reset at the start of each section.

agreed that the cited question answers this one, but that title really doesn't look promising. — barbara beeton, Jun 17 '14 at 15:44
@barbarabeeton That's why I couldn't find it when I asked my question. Keeping this one to point to that one might help people. — Ethan Bolker, Jun 17 '14 at 17:18

Werner · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-06T14:01:10.527

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You can use the traditional footnote mechanism, but you have to make sure that you deal with counters properly. To that end, pass a value as the optional argument to \footnote, but also set \thempfn to not print anything:

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[textheight=4in]{geometry}

\newcommand{\chapternote}[1]{{%
  \let\thempfn\relax% Remove footnote number printing mechanism
  \footnotetext[0]{\emph{#1}}% Print footnote text
}}

\begin{document}

\chapter{One}

\begin{quotation}
Some introductory material here \ldots
\end{quotation}

\chapternote{Information about this chapter -- without footnotemark,
  please.}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Another option would be to use the symbol "numbering" for footnotes and pass the value 0, since there is no symbol for 0.

\newcommand{\chapternote}[1]{{%
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
  \footnotetext[0]{\emph{#1}}% Print footnote text
}}

Another option is to use a package: nccfoots. It provides \Footenotetext{<marker>}{<footnote>}

\usepackage{nccfoots}% http://ctan.org/pkg/nccfoots
\newcommand{\chapternote}[1]{%
  \Footnotetext{}{\emph{#1}}% Print footnote text
}

edited Jun 06 '14 at 14:01

answered Jun 06 '14 at 13:47

Werner

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Your answer uses the same idea than mine, you were also faster, hence I will delete my answer and upvote yours. – crixstox Jun 06 '14 at 13:50
I've added a followup question - how do I restore ordinary numbering for ordinary footnotes? – Ethan Bolker Jun 13 '14 at 14:25
@EthanBolker: I didn't change the ordinary \footnote command, so you can/should use that. Restart footnote numbering with each chapter you could use \usepackage{chngcntr}\counterwithin{footnote}{chapter}. See Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements. – Werner Jun 13 '14 at 16:19
@Werner I needed \let\oldthempfn\thempfn% ... \let\thempfn\oldthempfn% in your first solution to restore footnote behavior. – Ethan Bolker Jun 14 '14 at 17:45

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