I have a document with main text in latin, but it contains arabic text from time to time. Since arabic tends to get positioned higher or lower than latin text when mixed with it, TeX makes sure that there is no overlapping so it extends line spacing if necessary (which really can look weird). To solve this, I set \lineskiplimit=-1000pt in the Preamble, risking that some overlapping occurs (I'll make sure this does not happen manually rather than let TeX do it).
However, there is a problem with footnotes: spacing between a footnote containing only latin text and the one containing latin and arabic text gets larger than those containing latin text only. E.g.:
1 Author 1, 2009
2 Author 2, 2009
3 Author 3 (and his name in arabic), 2009
4 Author 4, 2009
5 Author 5, 2009
In this example, spacing after 3rd footnote text is larger than between others (at zoom 1600% in Adobe Reader, spacing between letters "o" in word "Author" is 181px for all footnotes except 3rd, after which it is 193px. In my original document, this is even more noticeable). So, how to make sure that this spacing is even, no matter does text contain arabic or not?
P.S. I'm using setspace package (disemulated it first, of course, because of memoir), but it doesn't affect footnotes anyway. Also, this appears with xelatex and arabxetex too.
Here's a complete simplified example:
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\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LAE,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[arabic,croatian]{babel}
\DisemulatePackage{setspace}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.1}
\lineskiplimit=-1000pt
\begin{document}
Test\footnote{Author 1, 2009}
Test\footnote{Author 2, 2009}
Test\footnote{Author 3 (\textAR{أبو حامد الغزالي}), 2009}
Test\footnote{Author 4, 2009}
Test\footnote{Author 5, 2009}
\end{document}
