Page Layout ⇒ Formatting for Footnotes

[amath]

Hi,

I am writing a report in 12pt font size and I need to satisfy the following two requirements regarding footnotes:

1. The line separating the footnote from the main part of the text should begin two spaces beneath the last line of my text.
2. Double-space between each entry.

I am using \setlength{\footnotesep}{0.55cm} to achieve (2) but, as I do not know what the default space between two Footnotes is, I am not sure whether my 0.55cm is correct. Secondly, I do not know how to achieve (1).

Can anyone please advise?
Thank you.

[localghost]

Both lengths can be set by the common \setlength command.

1. I assume that with "two spaces" you mean the space that would be occupied by two lines. The corresponding length is \baselineskip. The length that determines the distance between text body and footnotes is \skip\footins. Hence the command for the appropriate assignment is this.

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   \setlength{\skip\footins}{2\baselineskip}

   The default value for this length in a document with 12pt font size is 10.8pt plus 4pt minus 2pt, which means that this length is stretchable and compressible. The new value is fixed.
2. The default value for the length \footnotesep in a document with 12pt font size is 8.4pt. Since LaTeX uses 1.2 as default inter-line spacing, you have to multiply this value with 2/1.2=1.67 to get double-spaced lines. Since 8.4·1.67 is approximately 14, the corresponding assignment is this.

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   \setlength{\footnotesep}{14pt}

Please check if these values match because I didn't test them.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten