Text Formatting ⇒ Widening of Footnotes

[angliski_jigit]

Hi All,

Could someone please help me with footnote formatting? All I need to do is make my footnote thinner, but I can't find a simple solution to this anywhere.

Many thanks,
Angliski

[localghost]

Define „thinner“ more precisely in this context by a minimal example.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[angliski_jigit]

By thinner, I mean to be able to adjust where the text begins relative to the left edge of the page and where to end relative to the right edge of the page. Easy to do for the main body of the text but not so easy for the footnotes.
Thanks
Angliski

[localghost]

I'm still not sure what you are after. A visual example from a book or something similar could be helpful.

[angliski_jigit]

I have added a picture of a screen shot (marked over using gimp) to help explain what I'm trying to accomplish. Basically, I want to control the width of my main body of text (which is easy using \usepackage[left=1cm,right=1cm]{geometry} in the preamble <-> red arrows in figure) but I also want to control the width of my footnotes (blue arrows in figure) in a similar way but can't figure out how to do this. They always want to be wider than the main body of text and I'd basically like them to be the same width (with or without the \usepackage[hang]{footmisc} option, which I am using, in the preamble).

Is this possible?
Thanks. Angliski.

[kaiserkarl13]

The effect you are describing is an effect of the [hang] option to footmisc---that is, in fact, what that option is supposed to do. If you want the right margins flush, then don't use the [hang] option. If you want the left margin of the footnote text to line up with the body text (and the mark to hang into the margin), try the [marginal] option.