Vertical space between footnotes

Question

I'm trying to find an automatic way to add some space between footnotes. I'm now adding a \smallskip after each footnote. It solves the issue, but non elegantly. I'm using reledmac. See below for my comments on why the solution proposed does not work in my example, and I updated the MWE.

\documentclass[foolscap, 11pt]{octavo}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{reledmac}
\Xarrangement[A]{paragraph}
\bhooknoteX[A]{\vskip1\baselineskip\noindent}
\afterruleX[A]{-1\baselineskip}
%To have critical footnotes before familiar footnotes
\fnpos{critical-familiar}
\Xbeforenotes[A]{1.8em}
\beforenotesX[A]{1.8em}
\beforenotesX[B]{1.8em}
\Xafterrule[A]{7pt}
\afterruleX[A]{7pt}
\afterruleX[B]{7pt}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\setdefaultlanguage{italian}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad3, doi=false,isbn=false,url=false,eprint=false]{biblatex}
\begin{document}
\section{First}
This is normal text with a footnote of type A. \footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]} \blindtext[1] And this is critical text:\footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
\begin{quote}
This is a critical text with critical \edtext{\textit{footnotes}} { \Afootnote[nonum, nosep]{\blindtext[1] }}. And \edtext{\textit{again}}{ \Afootnote[nonum, nosep]{This is a footnote }} footnotes.
\end{quote}
\pend
\endnumbering
And this is again \footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]}  normal text.  \blindtext[2] 
This is normal text with a footnote of type A. \footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]} \blindtext[1] And this is critical text:\footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
\begin{quote}
This is a critical text with critical \edtext{\textit{footnotes}} { \Afootnote[nonum, nosep]{\blindtext[1] }}. And \edtext{\textit{again}}{ \Afootnote[nonum, nosep]{This is a footnote }} footnotes.
\end{quote}
\pend
\endnumbering
And this is again \footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ Please bring me up! \blindtext[1]}  normal text.  \blindtext[2]
\end{document}

Answer 1

You didn't say what document class you're using, but assuming it's something like article, the spacing is determined by the length footnotesep, which you can change to whatever you want:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[marginparwidth=40pt, headsep=20pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{reledmac}
\Xarrangement[A]{paragraph}
\setlength{\footnotesep}{1\baselineskip}
\begin{document}
\section{First}
This is normal text with a footnote\footnote{\textsc{Title 1} \ \blindtext[1]} and another footnote.\footnote{\textsc{Title 2} \ \blindtext[1]}
\end{document}

EDIT (See comments): Special footnotes provided by reledmac do not use this amount, however. To my knowledge, the only way to deal with the problem is to use the package's hooks defined with \bhooknoteX (or \Xbhooknote for the critical variety) to insert some commands before each note; you can use \vskip to insert vertical space. However, since this will also affect the first note, to avoid having extra space before the first note on the page, you could set \afterruleX (\Xafterrule) to a negative amount to pull it back up to the rule.

% xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[marginparwidth=40pt, headsep=20pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{reledmac}
\Xarrangement[A]{paragraph}
\bhooknoteX[A]{\vskip1\baselineskip\noindent} 
\afterruleX[A]{-1\baselineskip}
\begin{document}
\section{First}
This is normal text with a footnote of type A\footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ \blindtext[1]} 
and another of type A\footnoteA{\textsc{Title 1} \ \blindtext[1]} 
and another  footnote but of type B.\footnoteB{\textsc{Title 2} \ \blindtext[1]}
\end{document}