[Tex/LaTex] Is this the right way to format foot notes

Question

Using the command

\newcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\noindent\makebox[.02\columnwidth][l]{\@thefnmark}%
\parbox[t]{.98\columnwidth}{#1}}

I got the desired result for the foot notes, as shown in the image below.

I'd like to know if my code is the best way to do this.

edited: using footmisc with the option hang as suggested, the format of the foot number is different so the vertical space around the foot note is changed.

Answer 1

With scrextend, a package that is part of the KOMA-Script bundle, one can use KOMA's command

\deffootnote[<mark width>]{<indent>}{<parindent>}{<definition>}

with the standard classes for formatting footnotes. The following figure (taken from the KOMA-Script documentation) illustrates the different values:

Inside the <definition> one can refer to the footnote mark with \thefootnotemark. Footnotes defined this way also work with hyperref.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{scrextend}
\deffootnote[1.5em]{1.5em}{1em}{\thefootnotemark.\space}

\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text

\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\mainmatter

% we want to see what happens for two digit footnote numbers
\setcounter{footnote}{8} 

a\footnote{\lipsum*[2]}b\footnote{\lipsum[2]\lipsum*[3]}

\end{document}