Two sentences in the same footer on every page

Question

I need to include a footnote on every page. The footnote contains two lines.

Expected output:

* This is only for members

^ This is only for leaders

Currently I'm only able to print one line at a time, the second line is getting ignored

Current output:

* This is only for members

Here's the code I'm using now:

\fancyfoot[L]{
\ifnum\thepage=1 \else \footnotesize \textit 
{*This is only for members} 
\fi}

What's the change needed to include two lines in the same footnote, on all pages except the first page?

Also - could you also share the syntax to have these in all the pages excluding the if condition? The "/footsize" comment is not being accepted without the if clause, is this expected?

Answer 1

Stack the entries in the footer using a tabular:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove header rule
\fancyfoot[L]{%
  \ifnum\value{page}=1\else
    \footnotesize\itshape
    \begin{tabular}{@{} l}
      * This is only for members \\
      \detokenize{^} This is only for leaders
    \end{tabular}
  \fi}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\usepackage{lipsum}% Just for this example

\begin{document}

\sloppy% Just for this example
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

Note the condition using \value{page} instead of \thepage. This to ensure you're not conditioning on the representation of the page counter, but rather it's actual value. The representation could be different (for example, \renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}, like in a document with \frontmatter set).

Answer 2

A slightly simpler solution that does not use explicit tests.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{\footnotesize\itshape%
  \textsuperscript{*}~This is only for members\\%
  \^~This is only for leaders}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}