[texhax] question about TeX FIRST page "footnote"

[Uwe Lueck]

Paul Isambert <zappathustra at free.fr>, 05.08.2010 16:01:58
> Selon "Dr. Daniel Raviv" <ravivd at fau.edu>:
>> The authors of the paper decided to be listed in an alphabetical order... the
>> problem is how do we insert a footnote in the FIRST page of the paper that
>> says: "Authors are listed in alphabetical order." (My understanding is that
>> it is not like other footnotes.)
>
> If you're using plain TeX:
> Why should the first page be different? Is it a title page? What happens with
> simply \footnote*{The authors are listed in alphabetical order}?
>
> If you're using LaTeX: anybody else?

\if the latter indeed, this seems to be a case for \thanks, cf. the LaTeX Wikibook:

        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation

Cheers, 

    Uwe. 

 "Dr. Daniel Raviv" <ravivd at fau.edu>