Modify footnote properties in optex

Question

How do I modify the behavior of the footnote line and text with optex?

I'd like to change the width and height of the rule, and the footnotes to hang thus:

¹ Text text text
  text text text
  text text text

I've tried changing footnoterule, but it didn't work.

\def\footnoterule{\vfill % added this
   \kern-3pt\hrule width 1cm \kern 2.6pt} % doesn't work
% \footnoterulewidth 1cm % doesn't work
\fnote{asdf}
\bye

It's difficult to understand what you want to achieve with that \vfill. — egreg, Jan 31 '22 at 23:34
@egreg, nothing in particular. I just copied it from a question here (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/573538/force-footnotes-to-bottom-of-page-in-plain-tex). I just want to redefine footnoterule and make them hang. — user574859, Feb 01 '22 at 01:44
Do you just want to change the length/width of the footnote rule, and have hanging footnote paragraphs? — jarnosc, Feb 01 '22 at 04:49

jarnosc · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-01T18:35:15.090

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As you realized, OpTeX is not quite "Plain" according to a strict description: it has its own internals somewhat differing from Plain itself; that of itself is not evil, just slightly misleading.

Anyway, to set the hanging indent to your footnotes add the following redefinition to your document.

\_def\_fnset{\everypar={\hangindent=1.5cc\hangafter=1}\_scalemain \_typoscale[800/800]}

To change the footnote rule:

\_def \_footnoterule {\_kern-3pt \_hrule width 1truein height 2pt \_kern 2.6pt }

edited Feb 01 '22 at 18:35

answered Feb 01 '22 at 18:16

jarnosc

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thank you so much! Worked like a charm. – user574859 Feb 01 '22 at 18:37
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I included similar answer on the OpTeX tricks web page http://petr.olsak.net/optex/optex-tricks.html#fnindent – wipet Feb 02 '22 at 05:02

Modify footnote properties in optex

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