On 2017-02-18, Steve Burnham wrote:
> I've found a very sloppy solution to my footnote problem. I can delete the
> chapter heading and use ERT like this to separate the footnote marker and
> the footnote text:
> \chapter[INTRODUCTION]{INTRODUCTION\protect\footnotemark}\footnotetext{this
> is my footnote}
> I'd like to come up with a more elegant solution though. The problem with
> this ERT is that all of the subsections for each chapter are numbered wrong
> in LyX as they number according to the last Chapter that was declared
> without ERT. It all corrects itself at the time of compilation though. I've
> tried just sticking an ERT box next to the chapter title with:
> \footnotemark\footnotetext{this is my footnote}
> but that causes the footnote to again not appear at the bottom of the page.
> When I export a .tex file it seems the problems is the placement of braces.
> \chapter[INTRODUCTION]{INTRODUCTION\protect\footnotemark\footnotetext{this
> is my footnote}}
> The \footnotetext command should be outside of the braces for the chapter
> title and \footnotemark command.
Then, use two ERT boxes: the footnotemark in the chapter and the
footnotetext in a standard paragraph below. (You can even use three ERT boxes:
* \footnotemark
* \footnotetext{
now the footnote's text as normal text
* }
Günter
