Page Layout ⇒ distance between bottom text and footnotes

[mahavishnu]

I want to change the distance between the bottom of the text and footnotes (more precisely the line before the footnotes) . I have seen commands like footskip with setlength but it doesn't make what I want...

I'm sorry for my English which can maybe explain why I don't find a solution..

Thank you for your helping me!
Eric

[cgnieder]

Hi mahavishnu,

Welcome to the LaTeX-Community!

The space between textbody and footnoterule is controlled by the skip \footins:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text

\addtolength{\skip\footins}{20pt}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

A text with a footnote\footnote{Some footnote} \lipsum

\end{document}