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I would like to add some information at the bottom of the text area. This information is automatically generated and inserted just after the \maketitle command such that I cannot use \vfill. So far, I've used a float placed at the bottom but I'm not sure this is the best solution and it doesn't work in every case because it depends on what follows.

My question is then what is the best way to do that ? Ideally, the solution should also work in two-columns. I've tried to adapt the PNAS template but without much success.

Here is a minimal working example illustrating the problem (just comment/uncomment last few lines to see the difference in placement).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=4cm, right=4cm, top=2cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum,float,tikz}

\floatstyle{plain}
\newfloat{statement}{b!}{sst}
\title{A Title}
\author{An author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{statement}
  \hrule \vskip .5em \sffamily \footnotesize
  This should appear at the bottom of the text area (whatever follows).
\end{statement}

\section{Section}
\lipsum*[1]\\

\begin{figure}[h]
   \begin{tikzpicture}
     \node[draw, fill=black!5, dashed, thick,
       text width=.98\textwidth, minimum height=6.8cm] at (0,0) {~~\sf Figure};
   \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{Caption. }
\end{figure}

\lipsum*[2]\\

%% When commented, the float is at the right place (bottom of the text area)
%% When uncommented, the float is not at the right place
%% \section{Section}
%% \lipsum*[1-2]\\

\end{document}
Nicolas Rougier
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! – Bobyandbob Jul 12 '18 at 07:50
  • You want a footnote without a number. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30720/footnote-without-a-marker – John Kormylo Jul 12 '18 at 14:50
  • No, not a footnote, just a regular paragraph placed at then end of the text area (look a the blue box in the PNAS template). They're using afterpage + float but for some reason it does not work for me. – Nicolas Rougier Jul 12 '18 at 15:00
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    There’s no problem with the placement of statement if you’d replace \lipsum*[2] with a longer text \lipsum*[1-2] (please do not use manual line-break \\). The “floating” issue is caused by the following section heading: Since there isn’t enough space to put the heading and a few line of text, TeX decides to push everything to the next page. But then there would be white space left on the first page, and TeX thinks leaving the space at the bottom of the page is superior to leaving it within body text, since the latter would interrupt the flow of reading. – Ruixi Zhang Jul 13 '18 at 15:24
  • I know, but I still want to place the statement at the bottom of the text area whatever TeX thinks is best. – Nicolas Rougier Jul 15 '18 at 04:57

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