General ⇒ A footnote extending through more than one page

[meho_r]

Hi,

Recently I've encountered this kind of problem. I'm working on a book which has many footnotes and it's not a problem except this one: on a place in the book I noticed a footnote that extends through 3 pages (horrible, I know, but what can I do? It's a translation, not author work). The problem is that on two of three pages there's no "normal" text at all, only footnote text (something similar to the sample I'll present here). Is there a way to put at least two lines of normal text on each of these pages (pages 2 and 3 in the sample)?

Here's the sample code to reproduce the problem:

Code: Select all

\documentclass[b5paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[hang,bottom,stable,multiple,splitrule]{footmisc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
Some text\footnote{\lipsum[1-15]} \lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}

[gmedina]

The manyfoot package and its \SplitNote command could be useful. Refer to the package documentation (particularly, 6 Splitting of Para-Footnotes, page 7).

Since you are already using the footmisc package, some considerations might have to be taken into account:

2 User interface — interactions with other packages
...
manyfoot The manyfoot package permits several independent sequences of footnotes.
Some preliminary work towards interworking with footmisc has been
completed, but more remains to be done at the time of writing.

[meho_r]

Thank you very, very much gmedina. At first try it didn't work, but then I realized that option "para" MUST be declared with manyfoot package for \SplitNote command to work. Works perfectly, even with footmisc package active.