It is customary to acknowledge the support of various grants or
contracts somewhere on the titlepage.
Generally this is done in the form of a footnote.
The easiest way to get TEX to typeset such acknowledgements is to
use the macro
foot.
You insert this footnote just after the last word of the title
or author's name, depending upon the situation, and then continue
setting the title page.
The
title,
author and
address macros
have been written in such a way that the
foot command
can be used with these macros without any trouble.
If you fool around with the title page and put things inside boxes
using the PLAIN TEX commands
line or
centerline
this is not true.
In this case the text will be put inside a box in restricted
horizontal mode and you must use the commands
footnote
and
footmark as explained in our discussion of footnotes.
For theory group users there is a special macro which generates
the acknowledgement to the Department of Energy.
the command is
doeack.
To generate this acknowledgement you simply type
doeack immediately after the last word in the title.
If other groups want to have their own
doeack macro
they need generate a file called MYPHYX TEX
and make sure it contains the lines
def
doeack{
foot{ Work supported by the Department of
Energy, contract $
caps DE-… $ }}