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Footnotes and linespacing
Hi,
I'm writing an academic text with footnotes, and I need to stop Word from inserting too much space between the body text and the footnotes. Word keeps breaking the pages too early, and there are ugly blank spaces between the body text and the footnote separator line. My publisher wants me to get rid of them. I get situations where there is more than 1 cm space between the body text and the beginning of the footnotes themselves. This should be plenty of space for the separator line plus one additional line of text. (My settings a Bodytext TNR 10pt, spacing exactly 12pt; Footnotes TNR 9 pt, spacing exactly 11pt; Normal style TNR 10pt, single spaced. The separator line itself is manually edited and has been set to a line height of 9pt; same for the the footnote continuation line; the footnote continuation notice is empty and has been set to the minimum line height of 0.7 pt because I figured out it was in the way somehow.) When typing, I can sometimes trick Word into beginning a new paragraph in the empty space above the footnotes, which shows that there is indeed plenty of space there. But after a few seconds, Word changes its mind and breaks the page, putting the new line on the next page. I've made sure this is certainly not a widow/orphan control thing, or a matter of having to fit footnotes on one page or the other or of having to break footnotes across two pages. I've seen documents where body text continues up to exactly above the footnote separation line, leaving just as much space for it as the formatting of the separation line requires, so I know it must be possible. Any ideas? Thanks, Lukas |
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