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I'm using the AAS template, linked here. I'm new to LaTeX and trying to get a footnote to show up for my title, but commands such as \footnote, \thanks, and several others are not working. The \thanks works for the authors, but not in \title or \maketitle. Here's a MWE:

\documentclass[letterpaper, paper,11pt]{AAS}

\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, pdfstartview=FitV, linkcolor=black, citecolor= black, urlcolor= black]{hyperref}
\usepackage{overcite}
\usepackage{footnpag} % make footnote symbols restart on each page
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}

\PaperNumber{#}

\begin{document}

\title{text...}

\author{name\thanks{info about author} \ and name\thanks{info about author}}

\maketitle{}

\end{document}
Eric
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    So this seems specific to the template you may be using. Could you elaborate and provide the community with a minimal example that replicates your current behaviour? See I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that? – Werner Jan 06 '17 at 21:57
  • Related: Disappearing Footnote (you may try with \footnotemark and \footnotetext{..}) – Werner Jan 06 '17 at 21:59
  • The template has you insert the title in \title{...} which is the first command after \begin{document}, and then there's an \author{...} line where you can input the authors' names and use \thanks{...} within it to create footnotes for author information to appear at the bottom of the page. After the \author{...} command there is a \maketitle{} (empty inside bracket) command which is where the error occurs when trying to compile...this is when I've tried using \thanks{...} or \footnote or \footnotetext or \footnotemark within the \title command,...it doesn't compile, and has an error saying: – Eric Jan 06 '17 at 22:16
  • ! Use of @xfootnotemark doesn't match its definition. \def

    l.42 \maketitle {} ?

     – Eric Jan 06 '17 at 22:16
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    What is the \documentclass of this template? And what packages are loaded? Did you see the link I posted about providing a minimal example? – Werner Jan 06 '17 at 22:17
  • @Werner the \documentclass is paper and I've updated my question to hopefully be more of a minimum working example like you asked. – Eric Jan 09 '17 at 20:00

4 Answers4

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You'll have to \protect your \footnote for it to work:

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\documentclass[paper]{AAS}% http://www.univelt.com/FAQ.html#SUBMISSION

\usepackage{hyperref}

\PaperNumber{1234}

\begin{document}

\title{A title\protect\footnote{\MakeLowercase{\MakeUppercase{A} title footnote.}}}

\author{First Author\thanks{Info about First Author.} \ and Second Author\thanks{Info about Second Author.}}

\maketitle

\end{document}

Since the \title is set using \MakeUppercase, you'll have to work some magic for the content in the \footnote to set the way you want.

Werner
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  • Given that the AAS document class kills the \thanks macro locally unless the submit option is set, I'd assume that they'll also frown on any work-arounds that use a \footnote directive instead of \thanks. – Mico Jan 09 '17 at 21:59
  • It's interesting they do that because the distro statements are definitely needed, since papers (not just journal submissions) are published...and many past papers (not just journal submissions) have the title footnote appearing. – Eric Jan 09 '17 at 22:02
  • @Werner this is perfect! Thank you very much! – Eric Jan 09 '17 at 22:03
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I'm not sure what you are exactly looking for but , have you tried following snippet?

\footnote{numbered footnote}

\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{footnote without number}
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As asked before: which template or documentclass do you use. In plain LaTeX classes (article, report and book) it should be no problem at all. So my advise is: use standard classes, they should solve your problem.

Example

\documentclass{article}

\title{Some title stuff\footnote{Some footnote content}}
\date{\today}\author{A. U. Thor}


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

Result

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Jan
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  • I will work on posing the question correctly, as I am new to LaTeX and stackexchange, but to answer your question I'm using a "paper" document class, if that makes sense? I'm using a template made for a society/conference. – Eric Jan 07 '17 at 16:38
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The AAS document class lets you provide a footnote to the title only if the submit option is set at \documentclass time. (I take it that the paper option should be used for conference papers and that the submit option should be used for a submission to the JAS -- the society's journal.)

If the submit option is not set, the following code from AAS.cls kicks in (cf. lines 180ff):

\if@submit%
  ...
\else% paper, or note
  ...
  \renewcommand\thanks[1]{}% locally kill the \thanks{} command
  ...

The upshot: If you really want to provide a footnote to go with the title, use the submit document class option. If you're not allowed to do so, don't provide a footnote to go with the title.

Mico
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