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I'm using the scrbook KOMAScript class. I have many short footnotes, which would be nicer if they were formatted in multiple columns instead of one long column that leaves a lot of undesired whitespace.

There are a variety of solutions that I've investigated that are incompatible with my setup:

  • dblfnote takes my 130+ page document and turns it into 5000+ page document!
  • rledmac Creates an error no room for a new \write that doesn't happen when this package isn't loaded.
  • use the memoir class I'm already using scrbook from KOMAScript

Several questions are similar, but relate to having multi-column footnotes in a multi-column document. I have a single-column document

jlconlin
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  • Try footmisc with option para. It's not exactly multi-column, but it typesets all footnotes on a page in a single paragraph at the bottom of the page. If there are several footnotes on the page, they will be run together in the page foot, each introduced by its footnote mark. Might be (close to) what you are looking for. – Ingmar Jun 26 '22 at 18:21
  • @Ingmar that certainly makes my footnotes take up less space, but a columnar format would look a little more clean. – jlconlin Jun 26 '22 at 21:42
  • See this thread for more: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134937/split-latex-footnotes-into-two-columns – Ingmar Jun 27 '22 at 04:13
  • I wasn't able to get dblfnote to work, but I did finally get the bidi package to work. Found this answer at the end of a list of answers. – jlconlin Jun 27 '22 at 04:55
  • Requires XeLaTeX, though, so might not be an option for everyone … Glad it works for you. – Ingmar Jun 27 '22 at 05:34
  • It does require XeLaTeX, which I was already using. But perhaps I responded too quickly. For some reason including bidi creates the error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. on a custom counter I have. I'm afraid my setup is a bit fragile. – jlconlin Jun 27 '22 at 12:48

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