Text Formatting ⇒ Footnotes without superscript + headings without hyphenation

[thoddy]

Hi guys, I REALLY need help now!!

I am lay-outing a book - my dissertation thesis. I am almost done. ALMOST! Because there are two things the printing guys want me to change:

(1) The footnote numbers / symbols at the end of each page should use "normal" numbers, not "superscript" numbers.

(2) I have some long chapter / section headings. Those should be left-oriented (not justified) and do not use hyphenation. The rest of the text is ok justified and using hyphenation, only heading should be changed.

I am trying to get a grip on these issues for hours now - no idea where to keep looking...

THANKS!

[gmedina]

Hi,

for question (1): you can add something like this:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
  \noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark.\space}#1}
\makeatother

to the preamble of your document. That code will cause the footnote mark onto the baseline followed by a period and separated from the footnote text by a single space.

Now, regarding question (2), could you please tell us what document class are you using and what sectional units you want to modify? (only chapters and sections?)

[localghost]

I wonder that the print shop has a say in how such things have to look like. The only things from which I know they can have demands are embedding fonts and preparing a camera-ready document by printing for example a A5 layout on A4 paper.

Regarding the second issue, the titlesec package is able to do the job.

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\usepackage[raggedright]{titlesec}

The manual has more details about all the capabilities of this package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[thoddy]

AWESOME!!

Both hints work perfectly! Thanks a lot, guys!!

Sorry, I forgot - I use "book" style, in 10pt on a B5 page size...

I think that were the last difficult tweaks I had to make. So now the PDF can be given to be printed...

[thoddy]

OK, not quite... I thought that was it - but what I still need to change now is: I need a tabular WITHIN the footnotes, so they look some like this:

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9.    Footnote one with little text.
10.   Footnote two with a lot more text to show the line
      wrapping.
11.   Footnote three with little text.

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use boxes in the redefinition of \@makefntext:

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\documentclass{book}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
  \noindent\parbox[t][\height][l]{3em}{\@thefnmark.}\parbox[t][\height][l]{6cm}{#1}\vskip3pt}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

text text text\footnote{A short footnote}

text text text\footnote{A long footnote with text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}

text text text\footnote{Another short footnote}

\end{document}

Of course, change the width of the parboxes according to your needs.

[thoddy]

Perfect!

I only needed to change the two sizes...

Thanks a lot!!