In the elsarticle
class, when you use the command \tnoteref
, a star is placed at the end of the title and used as the symbol for the footnote, see the example below.
I would like to change that to something other than a star, say a dagger. Is there a way to do that by adding code to a .tex
file's preamble?
\documentclass{elsarticle}
\begin{document}
\begin{frontmatter}
\title{This is a specimen title\tnoteref{t1}}
\author{M. Author}
\tnotetext[t1]{This document is a collaborative effort.}
\end{frontmatter}
\section{Paper Material}
Some Text.
\end{document}
Output:
Best Answer
Due to changes in
elsarticle
since this answer was first posted, the approach now depends on the package version.For version 3.1 (January 2019)
Since version 1.2, the package replaced
\ding{73}
with$\star$
for title footnotes and changed its approach to handling the footnote index. Also, a new package option (doubleblind
) was added and the title footnotes disabled if it is used.The following is a reimplementation of the original "for fun" edit below that removes the two footnote limit and replaces the default symbol with the user-defined
\tnotemarksymbol
.Original answer: For Version 1.2 and (possibly) 3.0
You can patch the
\tnotemark
and\tnotetext
commands withetoolbox
to replace the star (\ding{73}
) with the dagger (\dag
):Edit:
For fun, here is a generalization of the
\tnotemark
/\tnotetext
system used byelsarticle
for more than 2 notes. It usesexpl3
(specifically this answer by Joseph Wright) to repeat the symbol defined by the command\tnotemarksymbol
by the count associated with each note.