footnotes
I want to use \thanks and \footnote without any numbering/mark with my title. Is there a way to do it?
I use:
\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}
after Alan Munn's answer it works for the numbering or mark, but what about the line just above the footnote?
Also remember that in MkIV it's not
\setupfootnotes[textstyle=normal, textcommand=\tf]
but
\setupnotation[footnote][textstyle=normal, textcommand=\tf]
I'm using the following now to achieve non-superscript numbers
\setupnotation[footnote][way=bypage,numbercommand=\tf]
You must be missing some group definition in your example, since
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Here is some text\footnote{First footnote}\par
Here is some text{\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{Second footnote}}\par
Here is some text\footnote{Last footnote}
\end{document}
produces
The use of braces around the redefinition of \thefootnote - called scoping or grouping - makes ordinary modifications to macros only survive within the group. That is, their regular definitions return outside the group.
However, it's best to define some form of macro to take care of you particular \footnote construction. See Consistent typography. Here's an example that produces the same output:
\documentclass{article}
\setlength{\textheight}{10\baselineskip}% Just for this example
\makeatletter
\let\oldfootnote\footnote
\def\footnote{\@ifstar\footnote@star\footnote@nostar}
\def\footnote@star#1{{\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{#1}}}
\def\footnote@nostar{\oldfootnote}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Here is some text\footnote{First footnote}\par
Here is some text\footnote*{Second footnote}\par
Here is some text\footnote{Last footnote}
\end{document}
Best Answer
As the comments suggest, there may be some issues with the particular document class you are using, but with the regular
articleorscrartclclasses (but not with classes that create a title page) you can simply redefine\footnotemarkin your preamble. This won't affect the further use of footnotes in the document (which I assume you still want to have numbered normally.) I've also added code to remove the footnote rule.