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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX line spacing, revisited by a LaTeX user
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Date: 17 Feb 91 05:53:20 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.204223.1@freke.claremont.edu> dhosek@freke.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
* Yes, but getting a singlespaced footnote in doublespaced text is
* not so easy. Trust me, I've worked on the problem. There are some
* nasty timing issues related to changing \baselineskip and
* besides, who wants to tell TeX to singlespace everytime they
* start a footnote? I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid.

It depends how you start double spaced text. If you start with
``\baselineskip'' then ``\footnote'' is single spaced by default even
though the text is double spaced.  You have to tell \footnote
specifically if you don't want a single spaced footnote.

The following file will demonstrate what I said: The text is double
spaced and the footnote is single spaced.

\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}

\multiply\baselineskip by 2

I am not a \LaTeX user so I don't know much about \LaTeX. I think \LaTeX
is designed the way it is, if you ask it to do something it was not designed,
it is not fair.
\footnote{
This is my opinion but I am just a student so my opinion does not
matter. I don't mean that \LaTeX\ is not good. All I am saying is one should
not ask \LaTeX\ to do things it does not do.}
\end{document}
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