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Titlepage

I wrote a titlepage like usual but I have supervisors from different universities. In order to provide the reader this information, I thought of writing the following possibilities:

  1. Using standard footnotes

    Prof. A\footnote{University A}, Prof. B\footnote{University B}

This worked perfectly, except for the fact that the footnote was on the titlepage. This looked strange to have a footnote on the titlepage.

  1. After that thought of using \thanks{University xy} but with this no footnotes appear at all.

  2. In the end, I found a similar question on stackexchange. It makes use of the commands \textsuperscript{1} and \footnotetext[1]{University xy}. This worked best as I can write the footnote text on the following page.

The third version as a MWE:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,openright,final,onecolumn,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand{\mytitlepage}{%
  \begin{titlepage}
    {\large under the supervision of}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Dr. A\textsuperscript{1}}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Prof. B\textsuperscript{1}}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Prof. C\textsuperscript{2}}
  \end{titlepage}
}

\begin{document}
\mytitlepage
\footnotetext[1]{University A}
\footnotetext[2]{University B}
\end{document}

Question

How can I still provide hyperlinks to the footnotes? Or maybe more general what is the LaTeX-way to do it?

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strpeter
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1 Answers1

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The simplest way is using the commands \hypertarget and \hyperlink to add manually hyper-links into your document. The hyperref package is necessary.

To add a target use: \hypertarget{label}{target caption}

To add a link use: \hyperlink{label}{link caption}

Your first two pages become:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,openright,final,onecolumn,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand{\mytitlepage}{%
  \begin{titlepage}
    {\large under the supervision of}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Dr. A\textsuperscript{\hyperlink{uniA}{1}}}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Prof. B\textsuperscript{\hyperlink{uniA}{1}}}\vskip 1mm%
    {\large Prof. C\textsuperscript{\hyperlink{uniB}{2}}}
  \end{titlepage}
}

\begin{document}
\mytitlepage
\footnotetext[1]{\hypertarget{uniA}{University A}}
\footnotetext[2]{\hypertarget{uniB}{University B}}
\end{document}
Donok
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