Text Formatting ⇒ Footnotes without superscript - but with ragged right?

[shlstrm]

Hello everyone,

I am writing a minor thesis and am in trouble as to footnotes formatting. I have searched everywhere but I just can't figure out a solution to this problem (being a LaTeX beginner). I believe it is similar to this thread, but there is a big difference in that I need my footnote paragraphs to be ragged right. I have to solve this as soon as possible, so I am eternally grateful for any help I can get!

I am using LyX with the Memoir book class and with the following code in the preamble (along with \raggedright for the body text) I almost get what I want:

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\usepackage[ragged,hang]{footmisc}
\setlength{\footnotesep}{14pt}
\setlength{\skip\footins}{24pt}

The result:

with footmisc

shlstrmfot1.png (38.93 KiB) Viewed 3262 times

This is almost desireable, but I would like the footnote marks to be not in superscript and preferrably followed by a dot like 1. Blablabla.

Without the footmisc package and with the following code:

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\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
  \noindent\parbox[t][\height][l]{3em}{\@thefnmark.}\parbox[t][\height][l]{14cm}{#1}\vskip3pt}
\makeatother

I get this:

almost perfect

shlstrmfot2.png (35.75 KiB) Viewed 3262 times

This is almost perfect, but as you can see in the image the text is not ragged right (like the body text). This is an absolute must for me - I would be very grateful if anyone can help me to achieve this!

Thanks in advance!
Håkan

[frabjous]

Try changing your second definition to:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
  \noindent\parbox[t][\height][l]{3em}{\@thefnmark.}\parbox[t][\height][l]{14cm}{\raggedright #1}\vskip3pt}
\makeatother

[shlstrm]

Beautiful! Thanks.

[localghost]

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Thorsten