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Footnote spacing in LaTeX


I'm writing my dissertation and the grad school says I need a space between multiple footnotes and also the space between the text and the start of the footnotes is too small. Is there a way to do this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.


Solution

  • \footnotesep is the space between footnotes:

    \setlength{\footnotesep}{0.5cm}
    

    \footins is the space between the text body and the footnotes:

    \setlength{\skip\footins}{2cm}
    

    You might want to play around with the actual numbers, I've just chosen some values where you will actually see the difference.