[Tex/LaTex] Indentation in footnote

footnotesindentationspacing

I have a small Problem with indentation in LaTeX footnotes:

   \documentclass[draft,12pt,a4paper]{article}
   \usepackage[footnote,printonlyused]{acronym}
   \begin{document}
   foo\footnote{foo: this footnotetext explaines what foo is}
   bar\footnote{bar: this very very very very very very very long text explains in  two lines what bar is, it would be nice if this line is indented behind the colon, starting below the 'this'}
   \end{document}

As you can see in the example, I repeat the word that has the footnote attached in the footnote again, everything works fine so far. But if I have too much text in the footnote, so that it spawns over more than one line in the footnotes, it looks 'wrong': the text in the second line starts at the beginning of the line, not as it should be below the first letter after the colon and the following space. How can I adjust the space in front of the second line, so that the text starts more towards the middle of the page?

example as is at the moment:

     foo¹
     bar²
     -----------
     ¹ foo: this footnotetext explaines what foo is
     ² bar: this very very very very very very very long text explains in  two lines what bar
     is, it would be nice if this line is indented behind the colon, starting below the 'this'

example as it should look:

     foo¹
     bar²
     -----------
     ¹ foo: this footnotetext explaines what foo is
     ² bar: this very very very very very very very long text explains in  two lines what bar
            is, it would be nice if this line is indented behind the colon, starting below 
            the 'this'

Best Answer

Maybe this help. Here. This is the complete definition of the command.

\deffootnote[<width of mark>]
{<indent of footnote text>}
{<paragraph indent in the footnote text>}
{<definition of mark>}

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Code:

\documentclass[draft,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[footnote,printonlyused]{acronym}
\usepackage{scrextend}
\deffootnote[1.0em]{3.2em}{10em}
{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}\,\enskip}

\begin{document}
foo\footnote{foo: this footnotetext explaines what foo is}
bar\footnote{bar: this very very very very very very very long text explains in  two lines what bar is, it would be nice if this line is indented behind the colon, starting below the 'this'.}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Making \footnote work in leftbar environment

A slightly longer code, which allows you to only type \footnote. The idea is to make each footnote append \footnotetext{#1} to a token list. This token list is then typeset at the right place. Some trickery is required to get nesting right, as well as hyperref support. Normally, this can be used for other (non-verbatim-ish) environments.

Comments in the code.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox} % for "\pretocmd".
\makeatletter
%
% User command, see the end of the preamble for use.
% We redefine the environment by adding "\savefoot@begin" at 
% the beginning, and "\savefoot@end" at the end.
%
\newcommand{\DeclareSavefootEnvironment}[1]{%
  \expandafter\pretocmd\csname #1\endcsname
              {\savefoot@begin}{}{\savefoot@patch@error{#1}}%
  \expandafter\pretocmd\csname end#1\endcsname
              {\savefoot@end}{}{\savefoot@patch@error{#1}}%
}
\newcommand{\savefoot@patch@error}[1]{%
  \PackageError{savefoot}{etoolbox failed to patch the environment #1, sorry}{}}
%
% Register allocation.
%
\newcount\c@savefoot@depth
\newtoks\savefoot@toks
%
% "\savefoot@begin" starts an environment which saves footnotes.
% We only want to output footnotes outside any such environment,
% so we count how deep we are in this kind of environment using
% the count "\c@savefoot@depth", which pretends to be a LaTeX
% counter. 
%
% We will store all the "\footnotetext" into the toks 
% "\savefoot@toks". This is initialized _locally_ at the start
% of each "savefoot" environment.
% 
\newcommand{\savefoot@begin}{%
  \advance\c@savefoot@depth by 1\relax  
  \savefoot@toks={}}
%
% When ending a savefoot environment, we check if it was the 
% outermost one. In that case, "\@secondoftwo", we output the
% "\footnotetext" that we saved, after the end of the group.
% The "\endgroup" must be explicitly there; this is the case
% because of how "\end{...}" works in LaTeX2e.
% 
% Since the register "\savefoot@toks" is restored at the end 
% of the group, we need to expand it inside the group, then 
% send "\savefoot@append{<expanded \savefoot@toks>}" after the
% "\endgroup", hence the "\expandafter"s. Same thing when we 
% need to typeset.
% 
\newcommand{\savefoot@end}{%
  \ifnum\c@savefoot@depth>\@ne
  \expandafter\@firstoftwo
  \else
  \expandafter\@secondoftwo
  \fi
  {% Nested, don't output, save to the level above.
    \expandafter\do@after@explicit@endgroup\expandafter{%
      \expandafter\savefoot@append\expandafter{\the\savefoot@toks}}%
  }%
  {% Outside, output.
    \expandafter\do@after@explicit@endgroup\expandafter{%
      \the\savefoot@toks}%
  }%
}
%
% Appending to a toks is standard.
%
\newcommand{\savefoot@append}[1]{%
  \savefoot@toks\expandafter{\the\savefoot@toks#1}}%
%
% To put after "\endgroup", we need delimited parameters,
% hence the "\def". We first check that the command is new,
% just in case.
% 
\newcommand{\do@after@explicit@endgroup}{}
\def\do@after@explicit@endgroup#1#2\endgroup{#2\endgroup#1}
%
% Now the footnote command. We save the old definition, 
% used in the case where we are outside any savefoot
% environment. If we are inside a savefoot environment,
% place the "\footnotemark", and append 
% 
%    \savefoot@setcounter{<explicit number>}\footnotetext{<text>}
% 
% to our register. This will be typeset at the end. We cannot
% just do "\footnotetext[<explicit number>]{<text>}", because
% the hyperref package does not like that.
% 
\let\savefoot@old@footnote\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{%
  \ifnum\c@savefoot@depth>\z@
  \expandafter\@firstoftwo
  \else
  \expandafter\@secondoftwo
  \fi
  {% Inside a leftbar, save the text in the relevant toks.
    \footnotemark
    \savefoot@toks=\expandafter{%
      \the\expandafter\savefoot@toks
      \expandafter\savefoot@setcounter\expandafter{\the\c@footnote}%
      \footnotetext{#1}%
    }%
  }%
  {% Don't save, just typeset.
    \savefoot@old@footnote{#1}%
  }%
}
%
% When not using hyperref, just give the counter "footnote" 
% the right value (in that case, "\savefoot@hhyperref@support{#1}"
% will be defined to do nothing).
% 
\newcommand{\savefoot@setcounter}[1]{%
  \setcounter{footnote}{#1}%
  \savefoot@hyperref@support{#1}%
}
% 
% Getting "\footnotetext" and "\footnotemark" to work with hyperref
% is non-trivial, and I probably did something wrong. But at first
% sight it seems ok.
%
\newcommand{\savefoot@hyperref@support}[1]{%
  \setcounter{Hfootnote}{#1}%
  \global \let \Hy@saved@currentHlabel \@currentHlabel 
  \global \let \Hy@saved@currentHref \@currentHref 
  \hyper@makecurrent {Hfootnote}%
  \global \let \Hy@footnote@currentHlabel \@currentHlabel 
  \global \let \Hy@footnote@currentHref \@currentHref 
  \global \let \@currentHlabel \Hy@saved@currentHlabel 
  \global \let \@currentHref \Hy@saved@currentHref
}
%
% If hyperref is not loaded, we disable the hyperref support.
% We check at the "\begin{document}".
%   
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \@ifpackageloaded{hyperref}{}{\let\savefoot@hyperref@support\@gobble}%
}
\makeatother


% ============= Example =====================

\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\DeclareSavefootEnvironment{leftbar}

\begin{document}

Some text,\footnote{With a normal footnote.} in which 
footnotes are preserved.\footnote{Even when you put several 
  in a row.}\footnote{Like this.}

\begin{leftbar}
  Also true for the leftbar environment.\footnote{The relevant 
    commands are placed after the end of the environment.} 
  \begin{leftbar}
    And we check that nesting works.\footnote{That was the tricky part\ldots}
  \end{leftbar}
  Maybe it breaks after nesting?\footnote{Let's see.}
\end{leftbar} 

More footnotes.\footnote{Like this.}\footnote{And that.}

\begin{leftbar}
  And another leftbar environment to be sure.\footnote{Does it 
    work? I'll see soon, when I compile.}
\end{leftbar}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Footnote indentation with amsart and setspace

The trick of setspace is adding

\def\baselinestretch{\setspace@singlespace}\reset@font

in front of the code for \@footnotetext (but it uses the standard code); so we do it to the code provided by amsart:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% save the code for \@foonotetext
\let\std@footnotetext\@footnotetext
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{2}
% restore the code for \@footnotetext
\let\@footnotetext\std@footnotetext
% now patch it
\patchcmd{\@footnotetext}
  {\normalfont}
  {\def\baselinestretch{\setspace@singlespace}\reset@font\normalfont}
  {}{}
\makeatother

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