Reduce spacing in German footnote style

Question

As pointed out in the accepted answer there is a difference between the standard footnote style and the German footnote style.

The code from below gives some strange space in-between two citation (as marked in red). How can I avoid that?

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@incollection{incollection,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}

@incollection{a,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}

@incollection{b,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}

\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}% <===================================
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{3pt}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
%   \setlength{\rightmargin}{0.2\textwidth}%
    \footnotesize}%
  \item[\@makefnmark\hfil]#1%
  \end{list}%
}
\makeatother


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
    Let's cite!  \footcite{incollection} \footcite{a} \footcite{b}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

have you tried playing with the \topsep parameter? Setting it to a negative value, eg -2pt should do the trick — Wiebke, Jan 02 '19 at 12:41
In that case setting \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt} directly is probably nicer than trying to cancel out \partopset with a negative \topsep. — moewe, Jan 02 '19 at 12:53
I too suggested that to make "\partopsep" to 0pt, instead of changing "\topsep" as a negative value — MadyYuvi, Jan 02 '19 at 13:17

moewe · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-04T11:34:42.253

I'm not entirely sure if this list environment is the conceptually best way to format footnotes, but since many environments are based on \list or \trivlist this is probably not too outlandish.

You will want to set the length \partopsep to 0 as well. See \topsep, \itemsep, \partopsep and \parsep - what does each of them mean (and what about the bottom)? for more on all the lengths involved.

I don't think it is necessary to set \parindent to zero, so I dropped that line. I also dropped the \setlength{\parsep}{0pt} because it would otherwise be quite challenging to make out the beginning of a new paragraph in a footnote.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[nopar]{kantlipsum}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}%
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{3pt}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
    \footnotesize}%
  \item[\@makefnmark\hfil]#1%
  \end{list}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
 Lorem\footnote{\kant[1]} dolor\footnote{\kant[2]\par\kant[3]} amet\footnote{\kant[4]}  amet\footnote{\kant[5]}.
\end{document}

Reduce spacing in German footnote style

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