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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: Double-Spaced footnotes
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Date: 28 Feb 91 03:01:57 GMT
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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.

In any event, remember that LaTeX users don't want to (or perhaps
I should say _shouldn't_ want to) clutter up their manuscript
with formatting commands.

Curt, in what context do you want double-spaced footnotes? If
it's a case of wanting to have the entire manuscript doublespaced
(for editing purposes), then \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
will do the trick for you. That's in the LaTeX book, although
there isn't a useful reference to it anywhere. If you want _only_
footnotes doublespaced, then you need to redefine \footnotesize
in a style option. Take a look at the definition of \footnotesize
in art10.sty (or whatever the relevant document would be) and
modify the argument to \@setsize which gives the \baselineskip
(it should be the only argument with units on it) to get the
desired baselineskip.

-dh

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