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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ftnsect</title>
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<h3>Footnotes in LaTeX section headings</h3>
<p>The <code>\</code><code>footnote</code> command is fragile, so that simply placing the
command in <code>\</code><code>section</code>&rsquo;s arguments isn&rsquo;t satisfactory.  Using
<code>\</code><code>protect</code><code>\</code><code>footnote</code> isn&rsquo;t a good idea either: the arguments of a
section command are used in the table of contents and (more
dangerously) potentially also in page headings.  Unfortunately,
there&rsquo;s no mechanism to suppress the footnote in the heading while
allowing it in the table of contents, though having footnotes in the
table of contents is probably unsatisfactory anyway.
<p>To suppress the footnote in headings and table of contents:
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<li> Take advantage of the fact that the mandatory argument doesn&rsquo;t
  &lsquo;move&rsquo; if the optional argument is present:
  <code>\section[title]{title</code><code>\</code><code>footnote</code><code>{title ftnt}}</code>
<li> Use the <i>footmisc</i> package, with package option
  <code>stable</code> &mdash; this modifies footnotes so that they softly and
  silently vanish away if used in a moving argument.
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<dt><tt><i>footmisc.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc.zip">macros/latex/contrib/footmisc</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/">browse</a>)
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<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftnsect">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftnsect</a>
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