Hello I have a LaTeX document and I want to set the space betwen the lines. Normally I would use \linespread, but this command will change also the space between lines of footnotes and I do not want that. So, is there any command that can change the space between lines of text, excluding the footnote text?
[Tex/LaTex] Different line space in LaTeX for body text and for footnotes
footnotesline-spacing
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To do this, I use both the \widowpenalty as well as placing \vfill glue into a redefinition of \footnoterule.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\let\svfootnoterule\footnoterule
\renewcommand\footnoterule{\vfill\svfootnoterule}
\widowpenalty=9999
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
This is a test\footnote{My footnote}
\lipsum[3]
a\\b\\c\\d\\e
\lipsum[5]
\clearpage
\lipsum[1-3]
This is a test\footnote{My footnote}
\lipsum[3]
a\\b\\c\\d\\e\\f
\lipsum[5]
\end{document}
And now, for the second image, here is the same text, with one extra line "f" below "e", that would otherwise cause a widow. I have confirmed that footnote is at the same vertical space on the page in both instances.
It's a design feature. T. Tantau defends the opinion that there should not be a footnote on a slide. Stuff that is not inline with his view is usually difficult to do in beamer and many macros are overwritten accordingly. To be honest I agree with him after suffering from undescribable pain in many conferences. Funny thing is that most people are driving beamer to act like PowerPoint which is interesting to see.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setbeamertemplate{footnote}%
{%
\parindent 1em\noindent%
\raggedright\setstretch{1}%
\hbox to 1.8em{\hfil\insertfootnotemark}\insertfootnotetext\par%
}
\begin{document}
\setstretch{1.5}
\begin{frame}
foo\footnote[frame]{bar}\par
foobar
\vspace{2cm}
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
foo\footnote{bar}
bar\footnote[frame]{Nam dui ligula, fringilla a, euismod sodales, sollicitudin vel,
wisi. Morbi auctor lorem non justo. Nam lacus libero, pretium at, lobortis vitae,
ultricies et, tellus. Donec aliquet, tortor sed accumsan bibendum, erat ligula
aliquet magna, vitae ornare odio metus a mi. Morbi ac orci et nisl hendrerit mollis.}
\end{minipage}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
It's generally not advisable to use
\linespreadto change line spacing for this reason. The normal way is to use thesetspacepackage. This makes footnotes single spaced by default. See also this question.