[Tex/LaTex] Want to change footnote size for biblatex-chicago citations

biblatexfontsizefootnotes

I'm new to biblatex (specifically biblatex-chicago). I'd like to make the size of the footnote citations the same size as the main text. Does anyone know how to change the default font size for the footnotes?

I'm currently calling biblatex-chicago in the preamble as follows:

\usepackage[notes,strict,backend=biber,babel=other, bibencoding=latin1]{biblatex-chicago}

Best Answer

It's not a biblatex thing, but related to the document class you are using, or a package you are loading. In memoir, e.g., you can write

\renewcommand{\footnotetext}{\normalsize}

and you are good to go. But this won't work across the board. A dirty hack, which cannot be recommended except for the simplest of cases would be to \let footnotesize = normalsize:

\let\origfootnotesize\footnotesize
\let\footnotesize\normalsize

But obviously this will make everything that uses footnotesize be typeset in normalsize, which may cause other, bigger problems. (The \origfootnotesize will let you manually call the original footnotesize declaration if you need it for some reason.)

\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\let\origfootnotesize\footnotesize
\let\footnotesize\normalsize
\begin{document}
XXX%
\footnote{\lipsum[1]}%
YYY%
\footnote{\origfootnotesize\lipsum[1]}%
\end{document}

For the article class you could redefine the definition of @footnotetext (from article.cls) in this way:

\makeatletter
\long\def\@footnotetext#1{\insert\footins{%
%   \reset@font\footnotesize% <-- original
    \reset@font\normalsize%   <-- change
    \interlinepenalty\interfootnotelinepenalty
    \splittopskip\footnotesep
    \splitmaxdepth \dp\strutbox \floatingpenalty \@MM
    \hsize\columnwidth \@parboxrestore
    \protected@edef\@currentlabel{%
       \csname p@footnote\endcsname\@thefnmark
    }%
    \color@begingroup
      \@makefntext{%
        \rule\z@\footnotesep\ignorespaces#1\@finalstrut\strutbox}%
    \color@endgroup}}%
\makeatother

And this should give you what you want. The definitions for report.cls and book.cls are likely the same, but I haven't looked.

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