How can I have a footnote witn an \url in a section title?

Question

When I have a footnote with an url in the section-header, the table of contents shows nothing with it. Why and how can I fix the issue?

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-09 11:50:18Z

It's in general a bad idea to footnote section titles. The footnote can go, if really necessary, to the first paragraph.

In case you can't get without it, you have to use the optional argument:

\section[Section title]{Section title\footnote{A footnote}}

otherwise you'll footnote also the table of contents and the headers, which is wrong (and with a \url command you'll get many errors).

If the URL contains special characters, LaTeX would have a very hard job, so you should consider the \urldef command.

Thorsten · Answer 2 · 2012-03-09 12:30:17Z

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Use like this:

\section{Section title\protect\footnote{A footnote}}

edited Mar 9 '12 at 12:30

Thorsten
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answered Mar 9 '12 at 12:06

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...does not work, even more errors -1 unless clarified. – hhh Mar 9 '12 at 12:24

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