[Tex/LaTex] Changing footnote spacing for biblatex-chicago citations

footnotesline-spacing

I'm trying to get the spacing for footnotes generated by biblatex-chicago to become double-spaced. I've set up double spacing the main part of the text using the following in the preamble:

\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}

And to try to get it in the footnotes, I've tried the following

\setlength{\footnotesep}{0.5cm}

as well as 

\setlength{\bibitemsep}{24pt}

as well as 

\newcommand{\note}[1]{\footnote{\begin{doublespace}#1\end{doublespace}}}

but none of these seems to do the trick for the footnotes.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Best Answer

The easiest solution is to change \baselinestretch, though this is usually not recommended; LaTeX provides \linespread, which is probably better to use. But if you want everything double-spaced (or maybe you'll find true double-spacing too much, so 1.5 spacing is another option) try:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}%
\setlength{\footnotesep}{1.5\baselineskip}%
\linespread{1.5}\selectfont%
%\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.66}%
\newcommand{\sometext}{I'm trying to get the spacing for footnotes
  generated by biblatex-chicago to become double-spaced. I've set up
  double spacing the main part of the text using the following in the
  preamble:} %

\begin{document}

\sometext%
\footnote{\sometext}%

\sometext%
\footnote{\sometext}%

\end{document}

\footnotesep is for the space between footnotes; \baselinestretch for the (normal) vertical distance between lines. Note that you need \selectfont after \linespread for any changes to take effect (which means you can make changes at specific points in your document). Also, \bibitemsep is for the space between items in your bibliography.

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