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A long footnote occupying several lines sometimes gets split across several pages in the compiled document. Is it possible to generate a LaTeX warning when that happens?

A minimal working example can be found here: the context is similar, and all I want is a warning.

Thank you!

curious
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You can simply use the fnbreak package, which generates the warning(s):

fnbreak – Warn for split footnotes

This package detects footnotes that are split over several pages, and writes a warning to the log file.

Stephen
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  • Great, thanks! Interestingly, this did not come up in a search engine when I tried something similar to the topic of this question. – curious Jul 09 '20 at 17:24
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    I noticed that both "\usepackage{fnbreak}" and "\usepackage[nolabel]{fnbreak}" change the page layout a bit: in particular, my former split footnote is placed on the following page now.

    I would guess that the action of this package gives "additional preference" to non-split footnotes (maybe not intentionally).

     – curious Jul 09 '20 at 17:49