Footnote which is not a footnote

Question

I would like to write not more than two lines at the bottom of a page, in order to thank some people, without dedicating a whole acknowledgements section of my work to that. It would be nice to draw a kind of straight line at the top of these two lines. Hence, I'm talking about a sort of footnote, which is not a proper footnote, doesn't have the purpose of a footnote and of course is not numbered. I don't even know how I could refer to such a thing, and if this is standard.

How could I do that?

Have you seen https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30720 ? – Thérèse Feb 15 '19 at 00:40 — Thérèse, Feb 15 '19 at 00:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '19 at 17:48

1

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

text{\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{footnote that is not a footnote}}

text\footnote{normal footnote}

\end{document}

answered Feb 14 '19 at 17:48

Aubrey Blumsohn · Answer 2 · 2019-02-15T18:53:19.627

0

Here is another way

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}

\newcommand\nfootnote[1]{%
    \begingroup
    \renewcommand\thefootnote{}\footnote{#1}%
    \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
    \endgroup
}


\begin{document}

Text\footnote{One}

Text\nfootnote{Two}

Text\footnote{Three}

\end{document}

Edit: Attrib - I see originally from Footnote without a marker

edited Feb 15 '19 at 18:53

answered Feb 14 '19 at 22:21

Aubrey Blumsohn

4,117

Footnote which is not a footnote

2 Answers2