[Tex/LaTex] Reduce space between footnote and page number

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I am fairly new to LaTeX so please bear with me. I am trying to reduce the space between the footnote and the page numbering (see screenshots in the attachment). What command will do the trick?

Cheers,
JAy
Sample 1
Sample 2

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Ensure that you have no \raggedbottom somewhere in your document. Then you can adjust footskip using geometry package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[margin=1in,footskip=0.1in]{geometry}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\begin{document}
  \kant[1-3]\footnote{some}
  \kant[1-24]
\end{document}

Adjust the footskip value as you desire.

enter image description here

A better setting may include

\usepackage[margin=1in,includehead,includefoot,headheight=0.5in,headsep=0.2in,footskip=0.2in,heightrounded]{geometry}

with suitable values.

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In my opinion, you should use full-size numbers -- not only for references to footnotes, but also for the actual notes.

Quoting Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p. 69:

4.3.3 Use superscripts in the text but full-size numbers in the notes themselves

In the main text, superscript numbers are used to indicate notes because superscript numbers minimize interruption. They are typographic asides: small because that is an expression of their relative importance, and raised for two reasons: to keep them out of the flow of the main text, and to make them easier to find. In the note itself, the number is not an aside but a target. Therefore the number in the note should be full size.

EDIT: Here's an example using the scrextend package which is part of KOMA-script:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{scrextend}
\deffootnote{2em}{1.6em}{\thefootnotemark\hspace{0.7em}}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\blindtext\footnote{\blindtext}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Configuring footnote position and spacing

I don't know if I got completely what you want to achieve...

To "introduce some additional space in between one foot note and the next one, and between the first footnote and the line that separates it from the regular text" you can add the following line to your preamble (change 5mm to 1mm or whatever you need):
```
\addtolength{\footnotesep}{5mm} % change to 1mm
```
To "make the footnote number bold" you can add the following line to your preamble:
```
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\textbf{\arabic{footnote}}}
```
To "put it a couple points away from the left margin" you can load the package footmisc with the option flushmargin:
```
\usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc}
```

Complete code:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top = 1in, bottom = 1in, left = 1in, right = 1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath, booktabs, graphicx, setspace}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc}

\addtolength{\footnotesep}{5mm} % change to 1mm

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\textbf{\arabic{footnote}}}

\begin{document}
\begin{spacing}{1.9}
TEXT.\footnote{my first footnote is here.}

TEXT.\footnote{my second footnote is here.}
\end{spacing}
\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

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