I use the \thanks
command to include a first starred footnote with acknowledgments. The star should appear in the footnote, but there should be no star in the text (in this case right after the title). How can I remove the star only from the text and not from the footnote?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{This is my title\thanks{Here I thank people.}}
\maketitle
Here is a sentence.\footnote{Here is a footnote.}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
\maketitle
command in thearticle
class redefines\@makefnmark
in a group to print the marker in a zero width box, so as to preserve centering. Thus it's sufficient to define it to do nothing:The patch might be more detailed, removing all replacement text for
\@makefnmark
, that, with this patch, will become the replacement text for\useless@macro
. But since it's in a group, the definition of\useless@macro
will disappear as soon as the group ends.