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LaTeX newcomer here. Working on a paper, and I'm trying to make my footnotes look more or less like this:

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I got rid of the divider and increased the space between main text and footnote, but I have not been able to format the indentation and alignment properly. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

user68964
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  • Please post the code you have tried so far. –  Dec 14 '14 at 05:11
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  • Please add a minimal working example (MWE) –  Dec 14 '14 at 05:12
  • Try: \usepackage[hang]{footmisc}. (But it is always better to provide a MWE: it helps you get the help you want/need more quickly becuase it helps people who want to help you see where the roots of the problem lie.) – jon Dec 14 '14 at 05:14
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    Thanks all, for the tips. Clearly still learning the ropes! Found an answer that worked here:

    http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126877/how-can-i-align-a-multiple-line-footnote-text-right-to-the-footnote-mark?rq=1

     – user68964 Dec 14 '14 at 05:25

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Load the package footmisc (as suggested by jon) with the option norule to suppress the rule and hang to have the indentation on every line.

Then adjust the values of the lengths \footnotemargin (for the indentation) and \skip\footins (for the spacing between footnotes and text).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example

\usepackage[norule,hang]{footmisc}
\setlength{\footnotemargin}{1em}
\setlength{\skip\footins}{3em}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]\footnote{\lipsum[1]}
\lipsum[1-5]

\end{document}

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If you also want your footnotes to be bottom-aligned with the page, add the option bottom when loading footmisc:

\usepackage[bottom,norule,hang]{footmisc}
karlkoeller
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    Add the option bottom to footmisc to move the footnotes to the bottom of the page, or use scrartclfrom KOMAscript. – Sveinung Dec 14 '14 at 11:48
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An example using KOMAscript:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum} % just for the example

\deffootnote{1em}{1em}{%
\makebox[1em][l]{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}}}
% Documented at page 83 in the manual
\setfootnoterule{0pt} %% no rule

% Distance text -- footnote
\setlength{\skip\footins}{\baselineskip}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]\footnote{\lipsum[1]}\par
\lipsum[1-5]

\end{document}

If you have lot of footnotes, you may change the first and third em to add more space for the footnote numbers. If you do not want the footnotemark in superscript, just remove the \textsuperscript{}, i.e.:

\deffootnote{1.5em}{1em}{%
\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thefootnotemark}}

And the footnotes in KOMAscript are flushed to the bottom of the pages, looking much nicer when you have a page running short of text.

Sveinung
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