Footnote spacing in LaTeX

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Matt picture Matt · Apr 24, 2009 · Viewed 39.7k times · Source

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.

Answer

Torsten Marek picture Torsten Marek · Apr 24, 2009

\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.

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