I would like to choose the symbol appearing next to the author's name of a document (for example, I would like to put a dagger instead of a star). Here is an example showing how one can proceed to choose the symbol for the command \footnote : Symbols instead of numbers as footnote markers
Problem is that it fails when used in the \author environment. I can not use the above example if I use \thanks instead of \footnote.
Here is a minimal example :
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,two column]{article}
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\begin{document}
\author{Nicolas\footnote[2]{Ask a question}}
\title{Minimal Example}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
article
documentclass offers the\thanks
command for footnotes within theauthor
. These footnotes are automatically labelled by a symbol chosen from the following list (in the given order):*
,†
,‡
,§
,¶
,‖
,**
,††
,‡‡
.If you want your first footnote to be labelled by
†
rather than*
, you could change the following original definition:to:
where I have simply deleted
*\or
from the sequence.The above code can be applied as shown in the following MWE:
For a more in depth discussion on how the
\thanks
command works, you can have a look at the Werner's excellent answer to 'How does \thanks work in LaTeX article class?'