I am trying to use \thanks
inside \author
in a twocolumn article. The document shows an asterisk next to the author's name, but the footnote is not appearing at the bottom of the first page or anywhere else in the document.
The abstract is one column and \thanks
works if the multicol package is used, however it would be easier if the article is simply twocolumn. Here is a working example.
\documentclass [11pt, twocolumn] {article}
\usepackage[affil-it]{authblk}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{abstract}
\begin{document}
\title{Latin text\\ \textit{and}\\ It's in Latin}
\author{James Smith%
\thanks{The author would like to thank someone.}}
\affil{USA University}
\date{November 2012}
\twocolumn[
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext
\vspace{1cm}
\end{abstract}
\end{@twocolumnfalse}
]
\section{Introduction}
\blindtext
\end {document}
Best Answer
This is discussed in the TeX FAQ at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=onecolabs
(Where did you get the idea for the
twocolumn
hack from in the first place?)All you need to do is
\saythanks
after thetwocolumn
hack: