I'd like to have three authors that use the same footnote for their \thanks identifier (they are at the same university, and don't need separate affiliation notes). I've read one of the solutions proposed in How to write a footnnote attached to the author in a LaTeX paper?, but the last solution (using recalled footnotes) only works for two authors.
So an example: I'd like to have
Author1* and Author2* and Author3*
- University of Podunk, Timbuktoo.
How about the following?
\newcommand*\samethanks[1][\value{footnote}]{\footnotemark[#1]}
\author{Foo\thanks{University of Podunk, Timbuktoo}
\and Bar\samethanks
\and Baz\thanks{Somewhere Else}
\and Bof\samethanks[1]
\and Hmm\samethanks}
The \samethanks either duplicate the previous value or if you give it the optional argument, it uses that value. So Foo, Bar, and Bof have the same affiliation. Baz and Hmm have the same affiliation, different from Foo, Bar, and Bof's.
\thanks to take an optional argument which sets a counter thanks@#1 to the value of footnote, and recall that mark in \samethanks rather than passing in the value of footnote by hand.
Commented
Oct 15, 2010 at 18:01
Bof\samethanks[1]. I would much prefer if you can say Foo\thanks[foo]{..} and then refer to it with Bof\samethanks[foo] which will be less of a hassle if you ever need to re-order the authors. I was not completely sure how \thanks work (is it really just a footnote environment?), so I wasn't sure if you can just \label it. Is this clearer now?
Commented
Oct 16, 2010 at 1:44
\thanks uses \footnotemark and then defines \@thanks as \@thanks\footnotemark \protect\footnotetext[\the\c@footnote]{#1}} I guess you could probably use \label and \ref, but it hardlyl seem worth it.
I ran into this problem often in the past and my solution is like this
\author{Author1\thanks{University of Podunk, Timbuktoo.} \and
Author2\footnotemark[1] \and Author3\footnotemark[1]}
Not really flexible as one has to count but this is the easiest way I know.
