footnote without a mark?

[Laura Conrad]

I'm typesetting music, using lilypond or ABC. Sometimes there is a note
which needs a footnote. I'm treating the music as a black box, and
have told the music typesetting program that this note should be
marked with a text annotation like "(1)".

So when I include this music into a LaTeX book, I would like to have a
footnote after the music appears, but not to have LaTeX put a
footnotemark in, because the mark is already in the music.

If I use \footnotetext, an asterix appears where I put it in.

I've also tried various forms of

\footnote [...]{text of footnote}, and all the ones I've thought of
either leave a mark or cause LaTeX to complain.

Is there a way to get LaTeX to put in a footnote without any mark at
all?

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Laura (mailto:lco...@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
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[Magnus Bäck]

On 03 Dec 2000 11:23:55 -0500,
Laura Conrad <lco...@laymusic.org> wrote:

[...]

> Is there a way to get LaTeX to put in a footnote without any mark at
> all?

\footnotetext{This footnote has no mark.}

This will not increase the footnote counter, though. Besides changing
the counter with \stepcounter or \setcounter, an optional argument to
\footnotetext can specify the number wanted for that particular note.

--
Magnus Bäck | CS/CE student, Lund Institute of Technology
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[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Magnus" == ck <Magnus> writes:

>> Is there a way to get LaTeX to put in a footnote without any mark at
>> all?

Magnus> \footnotetext{This footnote has no mark.}

Magnus> an optional argument to \footnotetext can specify the
Magnus> number wanted for that particular note.

Thanks, this was the part I was missing.