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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
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Subject: Re: Double-Spaced footnotes
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Date: 28 Feb 91 03:31:24 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.190157.1@euler.claremont.edu> dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
* In article <62300@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
* > In article <44827@ut-emx.uucp> vaughan@emx.utexas.edu (Curt Vaughan) writes:
* > * Is there a way to specify double-spaced footnotes in LaTex?
*  
* > Yes, LaTeX footnote is separately controlled by baselineskip. By
* > default it is single spaced even it the text is double spaced. 
* > The following command will do it for you.
*  
* > \footnote{\baselineskip=2\normalbaselineskip 
* > double spaced footnote}
* 
* Xiaofei, I thought we'd been through this before. What you
* specified will not work for the same reasons that the
* single-spaced footnotes in doublespaced text (for plain TeX)
* wouldn't work.

Yes, we have talked about this before. The above command will work
in *LaTeX* [which is what the original poster was asking]. I just did 
a test before I posted. And also the same command will work for Plain TeX
in the case of single spaced footnote, double spaced text as long as
one add a ``\par'' at the end of footnote, i.e.

In a double spaced text of Plain TeX[\multiply\baselineskip by 2]
 \footnote{\baselineskip=\normalbaselineskip 
 single spaced footnote\par}
                       ^^^^
will produce a single spaced footnote [credit to karl@cs.umb.edu for \par].
However the problem is the spacing *between two footnotes* is still double
spaced and I don't have solution for this. [Some TeXperts have their own 
versions of footnote, so they don't need to worry about this. This, however,
is for most part for understanding purpose rather than necessity. I could use
for example, eplain to solve the problem.]

If the solution works and if it is elegant are separate things.  You
said that I am using Word Imperfect and I have to think about it.
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