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From: dhosek@freke.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX line spacing, revisited by a LaTeX user
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.233415.1@freke.claremont.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 07:34:15 GMT
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In article <60238@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
> 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.
 
[LaTeX example deleted]

I should've been more explicit. Yes, in fact, in LaTeX, the
single spacing is automatic because LaTeX resets the baselineskip
with every font size change. However, I was referring to plain
TeX in which getting single-spaced footnotes in doublespaced text
is a little bit more of a challenge.

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