Text Formatting ⇒ left justified footnote

[sitex]

The graphic below demonstrates the placement of footonte marks in the footnotes. Footnote 9 is correct--the mark is left justified. Footnote 10 begins in the margin and is incorrect. I am using footmisc with the flushmargin option and length
\setlength{\footnotemargin}{6pt}. How can I ensure that the mark, regardless of size, begins at the left margin? Thanks, Tom

[localghost]

Try some adjustments by means of the footmisc package.

A soon as the problem is solved, please act according to Section 3 of the Board Rules (last two paragraphs).


Best regards
Thorsten

[sitex]

Thank you for your suggestion.
I am using the footmisc package and I think I have tried all the options without success.
Tom

[localghost]

The code below works pretty well. If you uncomment the second option for the footmisc package, there will be another undesired behaviour. The separating space between footnote mark and footnote text is fixed so that the text is not properly aligned. I just noticed that now because I spare with footnotes so that I rarely need footnote numbers with two digits. At the moment I have no idea how to fix this.

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\listfiles
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[
  bottom,
%  flushmargin,
  hang,
  multiple
]{footmisc}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \setcounter{footnote}{8}
  \blindtext\footnote{\blindtext}\footnote{\blindtext}
\end{document}

If this doesn't work for you, there may be outdated packages in your system. Compare with my file list.

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 *File List*
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size11.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
inputenc.sty    2008/03/30 v1.1d Input encoding file
    utf8.def    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
   t1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  ot1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  omsenc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
   babel.sty    2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
 english.ldf    2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
geometry.sty    2010/03/13 v5.3 Page Geometry
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
   ifpdf.sty    2009/04/10 v2.0 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
  ifvtex.sty    2008/11/04 v1.4 Switches for detecting VTeX and its modes (HO)
geometry.cfg
footmisc.sty    2009/09/15 v5.5a a miscellany of footnote facilities
blindtext.sty    2009/06/14 V1.9b blindtext-Package
  xspace.sty    2006/05/08 v1.12 Space after command names (DPC,MH)
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(Perhaps this is worth a note to the maintainer. With a little luck he will read this here himself. He's a member of the board.)

The classes of the KOMA Script bundle make footnote modifications easier. Perhaps the memoir class offers similar features.