It works for me when using the article textclass. This is, I guess, because the style of the title page is set to "plain", and not the
rest of the document. But it is true that the behavior may change with other classes. I have seen now that the major sectioning
commands (\part, \chapter or \maketitle) specify a \thispagestyle{plain}. So the footer would be repeated at the beginning of every
part or chapter. To avoid that the "plain" style should be redefined after a new \chapter or \part, if I am not wrong. Take a look here
for related info:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout#Page_Styles
Cheers,
Nicolás
Manveru wrote:
Are you sure of it?
I see this will change footer on every page in whole document...
2008/5/29 Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
A possibility to get a footnote not connected to a part of the document is
to use the fancyhdr package
In the preamble, write:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\cfoot{}
\lfoot{
\scriptsize
your text\
\begin{center} \thepage \end{center}
}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
}
Nicolás
Michael Wojcik wrote:
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put
a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for
my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has
already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the
first page of the chapter as a footnote.
I thought that in such cases a numbered footnote was appended to the
title of the chapter.
The style Adrian describes seems to be relatively common in the US, for
various purposes. For example, many journals set text formatted as a
footnote with no number (often on the first or last page of an article),
with material such as previous publication, requirements for reproduction,
acknowledgments, and so on.
A couple of examples I have to hand are _Critical Inquiry_ and
_Communications of the ACM_.
So I'm not surprised that Adrian's college uses the same convention when
documenting prior publication.
