How can I set footnotes to different font and size to main text?

Question

I have to prepare a document with the following criteria - 1.5 spacing, text in Times New Roman, Size 12 (with footnotes throughout in Calibri, Size 10). Since I'm using luaLaTeX to get the fonts I'm not sure if the change font of footnote answers apply. In my MWE I am able to get the times font and have the 1.5 line spacing but how can I set the footnote font to size 10 and Calibri?

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,onecolumn]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5in,footskip=0.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{microtype}
\setmainfont{times}
%\setmainfont{Calibri}
\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-2cm}
\usepackage [autostyle=once,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage [UKenglish,american,british]{babel}
\usepackage[notes, backend=biber, includeall=false,]{biblatex-chicago}

\usepackage{setspace}
%\doublespacing
\onehalfspacing

\begin{document}

This is test.\footnote{Test footnote.}

\end{document}

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '16 at 19:32

4

Good news: The method mentioned in the link you've provided is fully applicable to your document as well. :-)

By the way, since your main document font size is 12pt, \footnotesize works out to be 10pt -- exactly what you need.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,onecolumn]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5in,footskip=0.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{microtype}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman} % or: 'XITS', which is a Times Roman clone
\setsansfont{Calibri}
\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-2cm}
\usepackage [autostyle=once,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage [UKenglish,american,british]{babel}
\usepackage[notes, backend=biber, includeall=false,]{biblatex-chicago}

\usepackage{setspace}
%\doublespacing
%\onehalfspacing
\setstretch{1.5}

%% See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/4781/5001 for the following code:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@footnotetext}{\footnotesize}{\footnotesize\sffamily}{}{}
\makeatother

\setlength\textheight{3cm} % just for this example

\begin{document}
This is test.\footnote{Test footnote.}
\end{document}

answered Oct 29 '16 at 19:32

Mico

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Given the question and the answer, isn't that a duplicate? – Johannes_B Oct 30 '16 at 08:15
@Johannes_B - It would appear (to me at least) that there was a second issue in the new posting: How to enable a particular sans-serif font? I handled this issue in my answer by changing \setmainfont{Calibri} to \setsansfont{Calibri}. Admittedly, not a particularly difficult thing to do... – Mico Oct 30 '16 at 08:19
I think we could close more questions as duplicates. But those tiny little things making a question unique ... Honestly, it bothers me a bit. – Johannes_B Oct 30 '16 at 08:30
@Johannes_B - Has this been raised/discussed/decided on Meta? – Mico Oct 30 '16 at 08:31
Discussed on meta. Have a look at my answer to that Duplicate automation finding magical software from a few days ago. – Johannes_B Oct 30 '16 at 08:36
@Johannes_B -- Ah, it's been a few days since I last checked in on Meta. Let me take a look now... – Mico Oct 30 '16 at 08:40
I don't mind marking my question as a dup. Also I am getting the following warning the LaTeX Font Warning: Font shapeEU2/Calibri(0)/m/it' undefined (Font) using EU2/Calibri(0)/m/n' instead on input line 40. I think this is effecting my footnotes as there is not italitc text for book titles etc when citing from bib file. While using Linux I do have the calibri files installed. Don't know if these issues are enough to not make as a dup @Johannes_B – gman Oct 31 '16 at 12:19
1

@gman How to get Calibri Italic is a completely different question and unrelated to footnotes, or bibliographies. – Johannes_B Oct 31 '16 at 12:27
@gman - Which operating system is on your computer, and which TeX distribution do you employ? (Depending on the OS, only the upright shape but not the italic shape of Calibri may be available.) FWIW, Calibri Italic is installed on my MacOS Sierra/MacTeX2016 system.) – Mico Oct 31 '16 at 12:53
I was able to sort it out by adapting my code to \setsansfont[BoldFont={CalibriBold}, BoldItalic={CalibriBoldItalic}, ItalicFont={CalibriItalic}]{Calibri} from this question Thanks @mico and @johannes_B for the help and comments. I mark this question as dup. – gman Oct 31 '16 at 13:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '16 at 19:26

Following a crude hack. Patching the font change directly into the footnotetext might be cleaner.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,onecolumn]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5in,footskip=0.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{microtype}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
%\setmainfont{Calibri}
\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-2cm}
\usepackage [autostyle=once,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage [UKenglish,american,british]{babel}

\usepackage{setspace}
%\doublespacing
\onehalfspacing

\let\oldfootnote\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\oldfootnote{\fontspec{TeX Gyre Chorus}#1}}
\begin{document}

This is test.\footnote{Test footnote.}

\end{document}

How can I set footnotes to different font and size to main text?

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