Page Layout ⇒ Footnotes fixed at the bottom of the page?

[MrGallagher]

I'm looking to fix the footnotes of my thesis to the bottom of the page, e.g. the distance between the footer and the footnotes should be stable, whereas the distance between the regular text and the footnotes can be variable. Is there any way to accomplish this?

I'm using memoir as my documentclass.

EDIT: I should add that using the footmisc-package wouldn't word, because I'm using the following code to format the footnotes according to the editor's wishes:

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\renewcommand*{\footfudgefiddle}{70}
\footmarkstyle{\footnotesize{#1}\hfill}
\setlength{\footmarkwidth}{0,9cm}
\setlength{\footmarksep}{0,12cm}
\renewcommand{\foottextfont}{\footnotesize}
\setlength{\footparindent}{0cm}
\renewcommand*{\footnoterule}{%
\kern 11pt%
\hrule width 0.4\columnwidth
\kern 11pt}

[meho_r]

Try with \feetbelowfloat command in the Preamble (memoir manual, p. 236.).

[MrGallagher]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried \feetbelowfloat already, but it didn't make any difference. Is there any particular position within the preamble for it?

[meho_r]

Can't say that, sorry. You may want to ask this at comp.text.tex.

Alternatively, you may ask how to change footnote marker when using footmisc package, since everything else is easily set up to look exactly as the result of the code you provided. But, changing footnote marker from superscript to plain numbers is a problem with footmisc.

[percep]

Try \flushbottom and preventing any vertical justification by removing any flexible spacing with \setlength{\parskip}{0cm}, etc.

[percep]

Actually that suggestion of mine isn't perfect because I haven't managed to work out how to remove flexible spacing above and below list environments, etc. (Any ideas?)

I think a better solution is simply to insert \vfill at the start of the \footnoterule redefinition.

Example:

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\documentclass{article}
\raggedbottom
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vfill\kern -3pt \hrule width 0.4\columnwidth \kern
 2.6pt}
\begin{document}
xxx\footnote{\flushbottom This footnote should be at bottom of type block}

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\pagebreak

\end{document}