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I am using the the memoir class to typeset a book, where the text has many footnotes. To avoid widows and orphans I use the option \sloppybottom. That has the result of under full pages. memoir normally sets the empty space of these under full lines at the very bottom of the page. But I would like this space to be between the text block and the footnotes. I did not found any solution for that in the documentation for the memoir class.

So I found the package fnpos. This packages seems to do exactly what I need, but I was wandering if there is a memoir way to do this. Or if it is recommended to use memoir with this package.

This is a minimal working example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twoside]{memoir}

\usepackage{blindtext}
% This package sets the footnotes to the bottom, but isn't there a 
% method to do this with memoir?
\usepackage{fnpos}

\setstocksize{23.5cm}{15.5cm} 
\settrimmedsize{23.5cm}{15.5cm}{*}
\setulmargins{2.25cm}{*}{*}
\setlrmarginsandblock{2.25cm}{*}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{2.25cm}{2.25cm}{*}

\setheadfoot{\onelineskip}{2\onelineskip}

\setheaderspaces{*}{1.2\onelineskip}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout

\clubpenalty=5000
\widowpenalty=5000
\displaywidowpenalty=5000

\sloppybottom

\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{}
\renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\small}
\footmarkstyle{\textsuperscript{#1}\hfill}
\setlength{\footmarkwidth}{1.5em}
\setlength{\footmarksep}{0em}
\setlength{\skip\footins}{1.6\onelineskip}

\begin{document}
\midsloppy
\frontmatter 
\mainmatter
\chapter[]{This is the title of the Test}

\blindtext
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam lobortis facilisis
sem. Nullam nec mi et neque pharetra sollicitudin. Praesent imperdiet mi nec
ante. Donec ullamcorper, felis non sodales commodo, lectus velit ultrices augue,
a dignissim nibh lectus placerat pede. Vivamus nunc nunc, molestie ut, ultricies
vel, semper in, velit. U
Lorem lis non sodales commodo, lectus velit ultrices augue,
a dignissim nibh lectus placerat pede. Vivamus nunc nunc, molestie ut, ultricies
vel, semper in, velit. U\footnote{\blindtext}


\section{A section nothing else}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\footnote{\blindtext} consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam lobortis facilisis
sem. Nullam nec mi et neque pharetra sollicitudin. Praesent imperdiet mi nec
ante. Donec ullamcorper, felis non sodales commodo, lectus velit ultrices augue,
a dignissim nibh lectus placerat pede. Vivamus nunc nunc, molestie ut, ultricies
vel, semper in, velit. U \blindtext


\end{document}

As mentioned in the comments, there is the option \feetbelowfloat in the memoir class. But it does not work. Does anybody know why? It seems that this was a bug that was reported 2010. I prefer the package \usepackage{fnpos} because with \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} I can't use the memoir way to set other footnote options.

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  • The easiest way is to use \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} (which is to be preferred over fnpos in my opinion), but it is possible to do it 'by hand' if you need to. And in fact, memoir does have a command \feetbelowfloat, which should work as you wish, but does not always do so in my experience. There is a post to that effect on comp.text.tex from a few years ago – jon Apr 11 '14 at 02:30
  • Could you please add minimum working example in your post? It would help solvers a lot. – Malipivo Apr 11 '14 at 03:42
  • @Malipivo I added a working example. – user5950 Apr 11 '14 at 12:27
  • @user5950 that is not a working example. We do not have chapter/Test.tex – daleif Apr 11 '14 at 13:20
  • @daleif Sorry, I corrected this. – user5950 Apr 11 '14 at 13:25
  • And what exactly is your problem? When I compile this the footnotes are at the bottom of the page. I'm using memoir 2013/05/30 v3.7b – daleif Apr 11 '14 at 14:07
  • @daleif The package fnpos does that. But my question is, whether or not there is a way to achieve that goal with memoir only. – user5950 Apr 11 '14 at 14:49
  • I'll have to see what fnpos does – daleif Apr 11 '14 at 17:29
  • @daleif You just have to comment it out. – user5950 Apr 11 '14 at 17:43
  • Better late then never, \feetatbottom feature is added to the text memoir release. Adopted from footmisc. – daleif Apr 22 '15 at 11:15

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Since memoir v3.7e it is possible to set the footnotes to the bottom of the page, with:

\feetatbottom

Then we use \raggedbottom or similar, L A TEX will by default attach the footnotes just below the text. In many cases it may look better if the footnotes are being build from the bottom of the texst block up. Issuing \feetatbottom does this. Please note that \feetatbottom has no effect whenever \flushbottom is active.

[Memoir manual, p. 12]

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