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- From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
- Subject: line spacing in footnotes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.033307.11089@sura.net>
- Summary: in plain TeX...
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:33:07 GMT
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- Greets,
-
- I was wondering if there is a way to set the linespacing on footnotes
- to single in plain TeX. To be more precise, I'm working on a paper for
- school in 12 pt cmr--the main text of the paper has \baselineskip=24pt
- (double spaced). The footnotes also come out double spaced (I'm using
- the simple auto-numbered footnotes described by Knuth in the TeXbook
- p. 318). I tried everything obvious (I think), but the footnotes kept
- coming out double spaced...
-
- Since the paper is due tomorrow, I don't really have time to play with
- TeX. My quick'n'dirty solution was to change "plain.tex" and run
- fmt.bat (I'm using EmTeX here at home). I simply added an additional
- line to vfootnote: \baselineskip=12 pt. This seems to work fine,
- vertical spacing looks great... but for future reference, I'd like to
- know if there's a way to do this without resorting to changing
- "plain.tex" (just in case I need to do it at work, where I'm not the
- only one using the basic style, for instance).
-
- Just wondering... since my paper will look okay, it's no longer a
- crisis.
-
- Nick (who forsook Word for Windows 2.0 for TeX) Vargish
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