I have used the following "no numbering command" for footnotes:
\let\thefootnote\relax\footnote{some text}
to insert a footnote without number (just once). However, now all my footnotes appear without numbers. What's the counter command to cancel the "no numbering command" after I put it?
Thanks
Best Answer
You have to save (using
\let
) the original definition and reinstate it afterwards. Also, I decrement the footnote counter, so that the blank footnote doesn't increment the index.Alternatively, you can use
\footnotetext
for the blank footnote, and then you don't have to reset the footnote counter (but you still have to reinstate the definition of\thefootnote
).Putting this all together, you can make it into a macro,
\blankfootnote{}
:And now, for the coup de grace, one can redefine the definition of
\footnote
, so that the syntax\footnote[]{my footnote}
, which would otherwise break LaTeX, now is made to call on\blankfootnote
automagically. This way, you don't need to remember the separate command\blankfootnote
, but rather just use\footnote
with an explicitly blank optional argument: