On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0100
"Yago" <diazd...@ono.com> wrote:
> See the footmisc package.
If you are using Linux, you can get the documentation for the package by
using the texdoc command: texdoc footmisc
This will open a viewer with the documentation for the package. I
suppose there is something similar for windows, but I don't know what
it is.
Alan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maria Gouskova" <gousk...@gmail.com>
> To: "mailing lyx" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:57 PM
> Subject: Asterisk footnote
>
>
> > Hi LyX users,
> >
> > I need to put in an asterisk footnote as the first footnote before
> > regularly numbered (1 and up) footnotes. I am following some
> > externally imposed formatting conventions and so cannot use the
> > Title environment (the publisher requires the title to be
> > left-aligned)--otherwise I would have simply taken advantage of
> > footnotes automatically becoming asterisked in titles.
> >
> > Here's what I have tried so far:
> >
> > 1. <Title text--not in title environment>$^*$\footnotetext{$^*
> > $<footnote
> > text>}
> >
> > This makes the footnote appear with an asterisk, but it also has the
> > zero number in front of the asterisk:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > superscript 0 *<footnote text>
> >
> > This is almost what I need, but the zero can't be there.
> >
> > 2. I put this before the footnote
> >
> > \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
> > <Title text--not in the title environment>\footnote{<text of
> > footnote>}
> >
> > Then right before the first real, non-asterisked footnote:
> > \renewcommand{\thefootnote}
> > \setcounter{footnote}{0}
> >
> > This doesn't work at all--it produces a bunch of errors, one for
> > each footnote,
> >
> > "argument of \setcounter has an extra }.
> > Paragraph ended before \setcounter was complete."
> >
> > And the usual baffling
> >
> > "I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.
> > For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce
> > this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that
> > I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway
> > argument that might be the root of the problem. But if
> > your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away."
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Alternatively, if someone could tell me how to left-align the title
> > in the Article environment, it would also solve my problem.
> >
> > Maria
> >
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