footnotestitles
I need to have a lowercase superscript letter for the footnote for the author, that is, I need the \thanks command to have footnote a as opposed to *. I'm assuming that I either need to use an option in the \thanks command or redefine footnote and then use \footnote. I've made various attempts but so far have had no luck.
My document class is article.
After little modifying this answer:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}
%\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,
hyperref=true,
url=false,
isbn=false,
backref=false,
style=numeric-comp,
maxcitenames=3,
maxbibnames=100,
block=none]{biblatex}\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{manyfoot}
\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{citetracker=true,sorting=none}
% Citation footnotes: use \footnoteA
\DeclareNewFootnote{A}
% Vanilla footnotes: use \footnoteB
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}
% Number of each bibliography entry in brackets
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}
\makeatletter
\newtoggle{cbx@togcite}
% Citation number in brackets
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\iftoggle{cbx@togcite}
{\normalfont[\@thefnmark]\enspace #1}
{\mkbibsuperscript{\normalfont\@thefnmark}\enspace #1}%
\global\togglefalse{cbx@togcite}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------
% Mostly verbatim from Joseph Wright
% http://www.texdev.net/2010/03/08/biblatex-numbered-citations-as-footnotes/
\DeclareCiteCommand{\bfcite}[\bracketing]%
{\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
%\let\multicitedelim=\supercitedelim
\iffieldundef{prenote}
{}
{\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring prenote argument}}%
\iffieldundef{postnote}
{}
{\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring postnote argument}}}
{\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
\usebibmacro{bfcite}%
\usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
{}
{\usebibmacro{cite:dump}}
\newbibmacro*{bfcite}{%
\ifciteseen
{}
{\xappto\cbx@citehook{%
\global\toggletrue{cbx@togcite}%
\noexpand\footnotetextA[\thefield{labelnumber}]{%
\fullcite{\thefield{entrykey}}\addperiod}}}}
\newrobustcmd{\bracketing}[1]{%
\mkbibbrackets{#1}%
\cbx@citehook%
\global\let\cbx@citehook=\empty}
\let\cbx@citehook=\empty
%---------------------------------------------------------------
\makeatother
\addbibresource{example_ref_list.bib}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Title}
\null\vfill\noindent
Vanilla footnote.\footnoteB{Vanilla footnote text.}
First citation\bfcite{Torquato2002}.
First citation\bfcite[e.g.][530]{Bernal1959}.
Vanilla footnote\footnoteB{Vanilla footnote text 2.}.
First ``multi'' citation\bfcite{Bernal1960,Bernal1959}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Let's look at some definitions:
\thanks within article.cls:
\def\thanks#1{\footnotemark
\protected@xdef\@thanks{\@thanks
\protect\footnotetext[\the\c@footnote]{#1}}%
}
This macro sets a footnote mark - \footnotemark. Then it adds the footnote text to \@thanks using \protected@xdef\@thanks{\@thanks <new footnote text>}.
\maketitle in article.cls:
\newcommand\maketitle{\par
\begingroup
\renewcommand\thefootnote{\@fnsymbol\c@footnote}%
\def\@makefnmark{\rlap{\@textsuperscript{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}}%
\long\def\@makefntext##1{\parindent 1em\noindent
\hb@xt@1.8em{%
\hss\@textsuperscript{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}##1}%
\if@twocolumn
\ifnum \col@number=\@ne
\@maketitle
\else
\twocolumn[\@maketitle]%
\fi
\else
\newpage
\global\@topnum\z@ % Prevents figures from going at top of page.
\@maketitle
\fi
\thispagestyle{plain}\@thanks
\endgroup
\setcounter{footnote}{0}%
\global\let\thanks\relax
\global\let\maketitle\relax
\global\let\@maketitle\relax
\global\let\@thanks\@empty
\global\let\@author\@empty
\global\let\@date\@empty
\global\let\@title\@empty
\global\let\title\relax
\global\let\author\relax
\global\let\date\relax
\global\let\and\relax
}
Inside \maketitle, a number of redefinitions of the footnote mechanism occurs within a group \begingroup...\endgroup.
Firstly, the footnote numbering is changed to \@fnsymbol - the regular *, †, ‡, §, ¶, ‖, **, ††, ‡‡, (error) sequence:
\def\@fnsymbol#1{\ensuremath{\ifcase#1\or *\or \dagger\or \ddagger\or
\mathsection\or \mathparagraph\or \|\or **\or \dagger\dagger
\or \ddagger\ddagger \else\@ctrerr\fi}}
Secondly, an update is made to the way the footnote mark and text is set - that is, the macros \@makefnmark and \@makefntext are updated. These updates (redefinitions) are very minimal in the sense that they really are very similar to the original definitions outside the \maketitle usage (also taken from latex.ltx:
% From latex.ltx
\def\@makefnmark{\hbox{\@textsuperscript{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}}
% From article.cls
\newcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\parindent 1em%
\noindent
\hb@xt@1.8em{\hss\@makefnmark}#1}
The only major difference is that the footnote mark is set using \rlap. This is because within the list of \authors, you'd typically separate with a ,, for which this redefinition allows the footnote mark to overlap with.
Thirdly the actual title is set using \@maketitle:
\def\@maketitle{%
\newpage
\null
\vskip 2em%
\begin{center}%
\let \footnote \thanks
{\LARGE \@title \par}%
\vskip 1.5em%
{\large
\lineskip .5em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
\@author
\end{tabular}\par}%
\vskip 1em%
{\large \@date}%
\end{center}%
\par
\vskip 1.5em}
The setting of the \thanks marks (footnote marks) as well as the collection into \@thanks occurs with the setting of \@author.
Finally, at the end of \maketitle, \@thanks is called, which "releases" the accumulated footnote texts collected with \@author.
Since \@thanks carries content globally (due to \protected@xdef), it's cleared at the end of \maketitle (outside the \begingroup...\endgroup scope), together with other macros.
Now let's look at an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperheight=20\baselineskip]{geometry}% Just for this example
\title{Some title}
\author{Author1\thanks{Abc}, Author2\thanks{Def} and Author3\thanks{Ghi}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Note how the overlapping occurs of the footnote marks with the punctuation after Author1.
With the addition of
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<success>}{<failure>}
\patchcmd{\@maketitle}{\@author}{\@author\show\@thanks}{}{}
\makeatother
to the preamble we can see the .log outputs the sequence of accumulate footnote texts stemming from the \thanks inside \@author:
> \@thanks=macro:
->\protect \footnotetext [1]{Abc}\protect \footnotetext [2]{Def}\protect \footn
otetext [3]{Ghi}.
\@maketitle ...ular}[t]{c}\@author \show \@thanks
\end {tabular}\par }\vskip...
l.11 \maketitle
These are set immediately at the end of \maketitle as mentioned above.
Best Answer
The
titlingpackage allows you to adjust the\maketitleand\thankscommands. To use letters instead of symbols for the title footnotes, you would issue\thanksmarkseries{alph}: