Asterisk-marked footnote from title

[Andrew J. Perrin]

Greetings-

A journal to which I am submitting requires that there be a footnote
off the article title, marked with an asterisk, with author
information etc. I can't figure out how to do this - tried
\footnotemark[*]\footnotetext{foo}, but that complained. Then tried
$\fnsymbol{footnote}$\footnotetext{foo}, but that was simply ignored
(no footnote inserted).

Of course, the rest of the document should be footnoted using normal
numbers, starting with 1 at the first real footnote.

Thanks.

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[Robert McDonald]

I think the article class automatically does what you want. Try this:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{The Title\thanks{Here is a footnote with author information}}
\author{John Doe}
\maketitle
Here is the text with normal footnotes\footnote{Normal footnote}
\end{document}

[Peter Wilson]

"Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
>
> Greetings-
>
> A journal to which I am submitting requires that there be a footnote
> off the article title, marked with an asterisk, with author
> information etc. I can't figure out how to do this - tried
> \footnotemark[*]\footnotetext{foo}, but that complained. Then tried
> $\fnsymbol{footnote}$\footnotetext{foo}, but that was simply ignored
> (no footnote inserted).
>
> Of course, the rest of the document should be footnoted using normal
> numbers, starting with 1 at the first real footnote.
>

Use the \thanks command.
\title{Article title\thanks{author info}}
...
\maketitle

Peter W.
peter.r...@boeing.com

[Andrew J. Perrin]

Peter Wilson <peter.r...@boeing.com> writes:

As usual, thanks for your spot-on advice.