Page Layout ⇒ Footnotes: Formatting the counter?

[MrGallagher]

Hey all,

I'm submitting my manuscript to a publisher that demands the size of the number in front of the individual footnotes be 12pt. How can I adjust for that?

I've considered adjusting \footnotesize, but that would disturb parts of the texts in the footnoes employing superscript as well, wouldn't it?

The document is using the standard book-class, and I'm employing the footmisc-package to create hanging footnotes.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could redefine \thefootnote using a font size command like

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\renewcommand*\thefootnote{\scriptsize\arabic{footnote}}

Stefan

[MrGallagher]

Thanks! That works great for adjusting the font size of the arabic numbers of the footnotes.

However, due to the fact that the numbering is still superscripted, the individual footnotes are now slighty separated from each other.

Would it be possible to align the arabic numbers with the regular text of the footnotes to prevent this separation from occurring?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps we could work it out if you would post a minimal working example showing how your footnotes look like and their alignment. At least footmisc is not standard and has some options.

Stefan

[MrGallagher]

Thanks again for replying so quickly. After I noticed the scriptsize command also influenced the markers within the regular text body, I worked my way around the problem by transposing the whole manuscript to the memoir-class.

Afterwards:

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\footmarkstyle{\footnotesize{#1\hfill}}
\setlength{\footmarkwidth}{0,9cm}
\setlength{\footmarksep}{0,1cm}

did the trick!