I would like to add a dagger symbol to one of my section headings that is actually a footnote, so that I can write a comment in the footer. Does anyone know how to change the footnote number to a dagger and then fix it to the section. Does anyone know how to do that?
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5Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/826/symbols-instead-of-numbers-as-footnote-markers – Runar Jul 03 '16 at 15:26
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I think the central part of this question about the footnote being in the section heading: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153329/footnote-in-sub-section-title – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jul 03 '16 at 20:06
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Please provide a minimal working example (MWE) next time you ask a question...
I hope this is what you are looking for. Here I define a new command \daggerfootnote to be used in such cases. It doesn't interfere with other footnotes numbering, as you can see.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\newcounter{daggerfootnote}
\newcommand*{\daggerfootnote}[1]{%
\setcounter{daggerfootnote}{\value{footnote}}%
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
\footnote[2]{#1}%
\setcounter{footnote}{\value{daggerfootnote}}%
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}%
}
\begin{document}
\vspace*{\fill} % just to show the footnotes, don't use it in your document
\section{First section}
bla\footnote{normal footnote.} bla\footnote{normal footnote.}
\section[Section with footnote]{Section with footnote\protect\daggerfootnote{dagger footnote.}}
bla\footnote{normal footnote.} bla\footnote{normal footnote.}
\end{document}
Output:
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